So said Winston Churchill in November 1942. He was of course talking about the Second World War. Today I am thinking about cancer. The launch… Read More »“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
This blog was written by Mairéad Lyons. Mairéad is a Senior Consultant to YouScreen the HPV Self-Sampling study. She has been working in healthcare for… Read More »Engineering meets medicine: A toilet to monitor our health or ill-health.
This blog was written by Mairéad Lyons. Mairéad is a Senior Consultant to YouScreen the HPV Self-Sampling study. She has been working in healthcare for… Read More »A blood test to find over 50 cancers could be the future of early diagnosis
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.… Read More »Equality and Equity in Cancer Screening: How can we personalise interventions and still be fair?
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… Read More »35 cancer prevention and screening blogs
In our final iconoclasm series post, Peter Sasieni explores the merits of making cancer screening non-binary. The classic paradigm for diagnostic testing and medical screening… Read More »Screening iconoclasm series: Is it time for cancer screening to become non-binary?
In this post, Peter Sasieni argues that it is time to be more specific about our definitions of specificity and false positive tests. How will… Read More »Screening iconoclasm series: Could you be more specific about what you mean by specificity?
If you read the previous blog from the screening iconoclast and know a little about screening, you might be thinking that the thing to do… Read More »Screening iconoclasm series: Are you putting too much value on positive predictive value?
Cancer screening is never straight forward and can be confusing. We discuss some of the key concepts in cancer screening. You’ll find that we refer… Read More »What is cancer screening?
