The Mysterious Case of an American Epidemic of Vaping-Related Lung Injuries
Deep down every epidemiologist imagines themselves as Sherlock Holmes: equipped with little more than a magnifying glass and a good brain, they dream of becoming […]
Communicating scientific information
The idea of a population
Clinical predictions are based on past experiences of a given population. In this post David Armstrong, Professor of Medicine and Sociology at King’s College London […]
Which screening guidelines are woefully inadequate?
Following a high-profile article calling for a change in guidelines to make it easier for African Americans to be eligible for lung cancer screening, Prof […]
Highlights from the 2019 International Early Detection Summer School
Post written by: Dr Charlie Massie and Dr Daniel Muñoz Espín, Group Leaders, CRUK Cambridge Centre Early Detection Programme. In July this year the inaugural […]
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, […]
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 […]