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 »A blood test to find over 50 cancers could be the future of early diagnosis
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?
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?
