Data and technology for cancer care
Colin McLean, Senior Data Scientist for the Data theme of the CRUK Scotland Centre, is among the authors of a new perspective piece in the European Journal of Cancer. “From bench to byte: A UK perspective on data-driven cancer research” was written by the leads of Cancer Research UK’s Data Interest Groups and sets out […]
eCRUSADers has published a detailed researcher experience post from our TRACC Clinical Research Fellow Tamsin Nash, describing the process of building a linked dataset for her PhD on socioeconomic and ethnic disparities in cancer care quality. The cohort comprises around 500,000 patients diagnosed with cancer in Scotland between 2009 and 2024, drawn from SMR00, SMR01, […]
An editorial in ESMO Real-World Data and Digital Oncology by Sam McInerney, Peter Hall and Kathrin Cresswell argues that the barrier to large language models in oncology is not model performance but whether strained health systems can assess, validate and sustain them. Using clinical trial matching and ambient documentation as worked examples, the authors show […]
A new population-based study led by our PhD student, Glasgow-based neurologist Emanuela Molinari has found that people who survive cancer diagnosed before the age of 40 face a sustained higher risk of mental health problems for many years after treatment. Published in Psycho-Oncology, the study used linked NHS records from the Lothian region of Scotland […]
This Data Linkage study exploits historically strong maternity and cancer registration data in Scotland to produce more evidence to help women in their decision making on pregnancy after treatment for early breast cancer. The impact of childbirth on survival after breast cancer remains controversial. National cancer and birth data were used to analyse an unbiased […]
Disparities in breast cancer care quality have reduced Regional variation in chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer across Scotland has reduced significantly over the past 15 years, according to a new study: December 2021 The findings suggest that there is now limited inequalities in treatment across the majority of the country’s 14 health boards. Experts from […]
Edinburgh was one of eight cancer centres from accross the world that was able to contribute real world data to a pooled analysis that validated RCB as a strong predictor in all breast cancer subtypes.
We believe that independance and transparency are a central requirement for the valid generation of Real World Evidence. This special issue of Value in Health highlights some of the issues. https://www.valueinhealthjournal.com/issue/S1098301520X00118
Prospects for future research and a reflection on lessons learned: The Bowel Cancer Intelligence UK Hub are working with Public Health Scotland and the University of Edinburgh to make Health Data available and research ready for the colorectal cancer research community. This webinar summarises the project and future opportunities. This introduces the paper sumarising the […]
Data from a single-center study in Scotland suggested that there were more patients with lung cancer admitted acutely with cancer, non-COVID-19-related illness during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Early and late lockdown were characterized by a reduction in self-presentation and longer resulting admission suggesting that patients were admitted with more complex pathology and consequently had longer admission,” […]
