Best of BEST3: An interview with Rebecca Fitzgerald, Chief Investigator
In this post, we interview Rebecca Fitzgerald, chief investigator for the BEST3 trial. Her work at the MRC Cancer Unit focuses on the early detection […]
Barrett’s oesophagus
Best of BEST3: An interview with Irene Debiram-Beecham, clinical coordinator
In this post, we interview Irene Debiram-Beecham, clinical coordinator for the BEST3 trial. Irene is a Senior Research Sister in Professor Rebecca’s Fitzgerald’s group and […]
Best of BEST3: a Q&A with Beth Muldrew, Clinical Project Manager
In this blog, we interview Beth Muldrew, Clinical Project Manager for the BEST3 trial. Beth successfully managed the project from start-up to conclusion, working across […]
Best of BEST3: A (not so) hard pill to swallow- an overview of BEST3 & the Cytosponge
The results of the BEST3 trial have just been published and the findings have exceeded even our most optimistic expectations. This trial showed that the […]
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 […]
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 […]
The importance of understanding and forecasting cancer trends
Nearly 9,000 people are diagnosed with oesophageal cancer (food pipe) each year in the UK and estimates suggest that this type of cancer has become […]