Isolines and Rabbit Holes: Adventures in ROC Space
There is an apocryphal story about Queen Victoria. Having enjoyed Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the queen requested a copy of Lewis Carroll’s next book. Carroll, […]
Equality and Equity in Cancer Screening: How can we personalise interventions and still be fair?
The classic American illustration explaining the difference between equity and equality is of three people trying to watch a baseball game from behind a fence. […]
Sponging the oesophagus to detect cancer earlier
We are celebrating the end of recruitment for the BEST3 Cytosponge™ Trial. In this post the BEST3 team in London and Cambridge tell us about this […]
Survivor bias and cervical cancer audit: all is not what it seems
In todays post we discover how lessons learnt during World War two can be applied to cervical cancer audit. The Curious Case of the Missing […]
Sisters are doin’ it for themselves
Dr Anita Lim tells us how her team’s research is building the evidence-base for introducing cervical screening self-testing in England, along with other approaches to […]
The Art and Peril of Communicating about Cancer Screening
In this post Hilary Robbins, Scientist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), discuses the art of communicating scientific information accurately. Whether or […]
35 cancer prevention and screening blogs
When we launched this blog last year, we were not aware of other similar blogs. To celebrate our one-year anniversary we have compiled a list […]
10 must read papers from the last year
We are celebrating our first-year anniversary! We hope you have enjoyed our blog thus far. To celebrate we thought we would highlight ten (18 but […]
Five Minutes With: Dr Silvia Franceschi
Our “Five Minutes With” series seeks to discover what are the habits, inspirations and obstacles that have shaped the careers of leading cancer researchers and […]
Why don’t women receive invitations to cervical screening after they turn 65?
Women around the world attend cervical screening regularly during most of their adult life, but in most countries, they are not encouraged to continue once […]