Data and technology for cancer care
DataLoch, in collaboration with ECi are proud to announce our membership of the UK Real-World Evidence Network. Operated by Health Data Research UK, this pilot will prove the potential of Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) and the Common Data Model (CDM). This partnership will centre on the challenge of combining data from multiple sources to […]
Edinburgh Cancer Informatics are part of a large partnership of Universities and learning centres from across Europe, taking part in a mass data standardisation programme to investigate cancer survival rates from date of diagnosis. The aim of this European-wide project is to examine the incidence, and survival of certain cancers to see how well mathematical […]
A huge congratulations are in order to Professor Peter Hall and Doctor Mahéva Vallet, who have both had work published in the journal ‘The Breast’, this week. An abstract of the paper, entitled “Enhancing clinical decision support with genomic tools in breast cancer: A Scottish perspective” can be found below. The Oncotype DX Breast RS test has […]
As seen at the CRUK Data Conference ’24 Estimation of prognosis is vital for informing decisions around care and its value, especially in patients with poor prognosis cancer (PPC) where there is a risk of under- or over-treatment. Established risk stratification tools can be derived from routine healthcare records, allowing population-level research. A well-used example […]
Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in the UK. Our study aims to assess whether early prehabilitation is feasible in these patients. Many patients aren’t fit for anticancer treatment, due to a combination of burden of disease, patient fitness and comorbidities. These issues affect energy levels and performance status, which results […]
Innovative new medicines used in conjunction with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) may lead to a higher pathological complete response (pCR), and therefore a better chance of survival for patients diagnosed with eTNBC cancer. The Edinburgh Cancer Informatics, in partnership with DATA-CAN, ran a retrospective, longitudinal cohort study using routinely collected data to better describe differences in […]
Collaboration with the Edinburgh Cancer Informatics team enabled an investigation of the Real-World Impact of stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) along with other conventional methods (conventional radiotherapy and surgery) on Stage I Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) patients in South-East Scotland. A total of 1143 patients discussed at MDM between January 2012 and December 2019 were selected for this study from the Edinburgh Cancer Centre Lung […]
Summary by Dr Iain Phillips. The Edinburgh Cancer Informatics is supporting a prehabilitation project at St John’s hospital, Livingston, West Lothian for patients with likely lung cancer. All patients with stage 3 and 4 radiologically diagnosed lung cancer are offered prehabilitation. This involves a thorough pre visit assessment. All patients are seen by a Consultant […]
In an effort to better describe patients affected with node-positive HR+, HER2− early breast cancer, the Edinburgh Cancer Informatics conducted a retrospective study looking at the demographic and clinical characteristics of these patients in South-East Scotland, in a real-world setting. Long term outcomes and treatment profiles were also reported, along with healthcare utilisation. Such audits are […]
Brain Tumour Pathway – a REDCap Project Critical to accelerating the discovery of new therapies for brain tumours and their translation into the clinic, is to investigate diagnosis, treatment and outcomes at a population level, mapping this to molecular interrogation of resected tumour tissue, and liquid biopsies from patients. In collaboration with researchers at […]