Data and technology for cancer care
Public Health Scotland webinar, SCRIS: How data is helping support improved cancer care services in Scotland’, took place on the 18 January 2021 and featured presentations from speakers involved in the implementation, delivery and use of the SCRIS project. Full details on the PHS website. Watch the presentations again: Professor Aileen Keel CBE – SCRIS: […]
DataLoch is a repository of linked health and social care administrative data sets from Edinburgh and the South East of Scotland. Edinburgh Cancer Informatics is working closely with the DataLoch team to make cancer data accross the region available for research. Read a good summary the DataLoch on the eCRUSADers blog https://ecrusad.co.uk/2020/12/03/dataloch/#q1
A national population administrative secondary care data linkage study People who are nearing the end of life are high users of hospital services. The absolute cost to providers and its value is uncertain. There is a need to identify which groups of people spend a lot of time in hospital so that care can be […]
Speciality Trainee in Medical Oncology Dr Ashley Pheely gives an update on some recent evidence about Covid-19 in patients with cancer TERAVOLT STUDY- COVID-19 in patients with thoracic malignancies (TERAVOLT): first results of an international, registry-based, cohort study M Garassino et al Background: initial data released in March 2020 from Wuhan, China suggested that patients with […]
Data Scientist Giovanni Tramonti has produced an implementation of the NHS Predict decision tool for batch processing. Available on the R CRAN. This is useful for producing a patient-level mortality risk estimate from breast cancer staging information. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nhs.predict/index.html
Speciality Trainee in Medical Oncology Dr Sam Kestenbaum gives an update on some recent evidence about Covid-19 in patients with cancer Clinical impact of COVID-19 on patients with cancer (CCC19): a cohort study Kuderer NM, Choueiri TK, Shah DP et al. 28/06/20, The Lancet Background: Due to the high prevalence of cancer and the high transmissibility of […]
Speciality Trainee in Clinical Oncology Dr Karen Mactier gives an update on some recent evidence. Evidence of past COVID-19 infection in healthcare workers (HCWs) is becoming a focus of medical and political interest. Here is a summary of the first, medium-size study in the NHS workforce with comments on similar Spanish and German studies. Shields […]
Specialist registrar in Clinical Oncology Dr Stuart Walter reviews two recent papers He highlights the importance of acknowledging the conclusion in the second paper: ‘While having cancer and receiving certain cancer therapies remain plausible risk factors for both contracting SARSCoV-2 infections and having more severe COVID-19 outcomes, existing data do not yet answer these questions’. […]
Specialty Trainee in Clinical Oncology Dr Ruth Fullerton gives an update on some recent evidence. For people living with cancer and the clinicians looking after them there remain a lot of uncertainties about the affect of covid-19. There has been particular concern that the anti-cancer treatments we use may put people at increased risk of […]
Dr Jonine Figueroa, Cancer Epidemiologist at the University of Edinburgh analysis of the latest death registration data in Scotland and looks at excess COVID-related mortality in cancer patients
