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Aug 17

Continuous Update Project: Breast Cancer Report 2017

Have you seen this paper? Continuous Update Project Report Diet, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Breast Cancer 2017 (Available from here) Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the UK and worldwide. Breast cancer is a group of diseases with different aetiologies and modifiable risk factors and so the ...

May 17

Cancer and lifestyle – research round up

Determining cancer survivors’ preferences to inform new models of follow-up care Murchie P, Norwood P, Pietrucin-Materek M, et al. (2016) British Journal of Cancer; Vol.115, pages 1495-1503 With a growing number of cancer survivors requiring long term follow up, the current practice of hospital based, medical led, one ...

May 17

Have you seen these CSO funded studies?

CSO provides funding opportunities for researchers in Scottish Universities and Health Boards to undertake projects (up to £300k and three years) through two response mode research grant programmes covering the broad spectrum of applied health and care related research. Following the publication of the 2015 Scottish Government ...

May 17

Cancer survivorship – living with and beyond cancer

Cancer survivorship is a term we are all becoming more familiar with and in its widest sense includes the time from a cancer diagnosis being made to death. It is thought there may be currently around 14.8m cancer survivors in Europe (about 2% of the population)[1]; more than 15.5m cancer survivors in the US (roughly […]

May 17

Scottish Bowel Screening Programme Statistics May 2014 – April 2016

by Andrew Deas, Information Services Division, NHS National Services Scotland The Information Services Division (ISD) of NHS National Services Scotland publish statistics relating to the Scottish Bowel Screening Programme twice per year. The most recent publication was released in February 2017 and covered the period May 2014 ...

May 17

Have you seen these papers?

ESPEN guidelines on nutrition in cancer patients Cancer patients frequently suffer from malnutrition and metabolic derangements whether due to their tumour itself or the effects of anticancer therapies. Malnutrition is associated with poorer prognosis [1, 2] as it can limit the response to anticancer therapies. In addition, ...

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