5 mins with Ranjit Manchanda: New NICE guideline for ovarian cancer
Today we talk to Ranjit Manchanda, Professor of gynaecological oncology, Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust about how genetic testing could […]
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Better Together: Joining forces to eliminate cervical cancer
Dr Matejka Rebolj and Jane Rigney, from the Centre for Cancer Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis, Queen Mary University of London, lend their reflections on the meeting […]
Cervical Cancer Elimination in Africa: where are we now and where do we need to be?
Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and African Cancer Registry Network (AFCRN) In April 2022, the UICC […]
Does the bowel cancer screening programme in England prevent deaths?
The NHS Bowel Cancer Screening programme is on track to meet its objective of reducing deaths from bowel cancer. Our recently published study, the first […]
How can we monitor improvements in early diagnosis?
This post was created by Amy Tickle, a Cancer Research UK-funded PhD student in the Cancer Prevention Group. Amy is currently in her second year […]
CERVICAL SCREENING AWARENESS WEEK: Enjoy a scroll through our year!
For the week that’s in it – Cervical Screening Awareness Week – we have pulled together a round-up of the cervical screening related blogs we […]
‘The tragedy of thousands who need not die’: A history of cervical screening in England Part II
This post follows ‘A history of cervical screening in England Part I’ written by guest author Scarlett Dargan. Scarlett read History at Churchill College, Cambridge. She […]
HPV Vaccination in Japan: The Journey to Resuming a National Immunisation Programme
This post was written by guest author Maddie Rose Baker. Maddie is an International Journalism Master’s student at City, University of London. She also is a […]
‘The tragedy of thousands who need not die’: A history of cervical screening in England Part I
This post was written by guest author Scarlett Dargan. Scarlett read History at Churchill College, Cambridge. She is now studying for a master’s in journalism at […]
Building back better: How can cancer screening & prevention level up?
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the current government has committed to ‘building back better’ and ‘levelling up’ communities across the UK. These slogans […]