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Cancer Evidence Update

February 2017

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Cochrane Systematic Reviews

Methadone for cancer pain
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Leicester Publications
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Internationally Comparable Survival from Ovarian Cancer in Patients Treated in Phase III Trial Active Cancer Centres in the UK.

Telomere maintenance in soft tissue sarcomas.

Internationally Comparable Survival from Ovarian Cancer in Patients Treated in Phase III Trial Active Cancer Centres in the UK.

Ex vivo explant cultures of non-small cell lung carcinoma enable evaluation of primary tumor responses to anticancer therapy.
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Reports and Media

Challenges to delivering the cancer strategy.

The Macmillan Cancer Support has published Warning signs: challenges to delivering the cancer strategy for England by 2020 .Click  here for more details.


CanCon, an EU-funded project to improve quality in cancer care, has published European guide on quality improvement in comprehensive cancer control.              Click here for more details..  

The World Health Organization has published Guide to cancer early diagnosis. Find out more about this guide

The 2015 Cancer Strategy for England described MDTs as the ‘gold standard’ of cancer services.Click here for more details.

Cancer Research UK has also published Understanding GP attitudes to cancer preventing drugs.
 
HQIP: National Lung Cancer Audit annual report shows "a 7% increase in the number of people diagnosed with lung cancer surviving for longer than one year, since 2010" See full report  here

The NHS Lothian's 'Cancer Manual: So what do I do now (2016) ' is available to health professionals and their patients.Click here for download

The office of the National Statistics, has published the "Cancer survival for children in England: 2015"
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GMC
Confidentiality: good practice in handling patient information


Guardian
Weight gain over adult life linked to greater digestive cancer risk, says study

Cancer drug prices must come down, say leading research institutes
Other Systematic Reviews

History, molecular features, and clinical importance of conventional serum biomarkers in lung cancer.

Discovery of Mieap-regulated mitochondrial quality control as a new function of tumor suppressor p53.

The anatomy of clinical decision-making in multidisciplinary cancer meetings

Body weight trajectories and risk of oesophageal and gastric cardia adenocarcinomas: a pooled analysis of NIH-AARP and PLCO Studies

A current perspective on cancer immune therapy: step-by-step approach to constructing the magic bullet.

SUMO and the robustness of cancer.

RECIST - learning from the past to build the future.

Telomeres in cancer: tumour suppression and genome instability.

Diffusion MRI in early cancer therapeutic response assessment.

Changes in Cancer Treatment: Mabs, Mibs, Mids, Nabs, and Nibs.

New development in CAR-T cell therapy.

Catching moving targets: cancer stem cell hierarchies, therapy-resistance & considerations for clinical intervention.

Cancer and inflammation.
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NHS Behind the Headlines - media stories explained

Diabetes could be a warning sign of pancreatic cancer

New drug treatment for pancreatic cancer 'extends survival'

Warning over 'burnt toast chemical' acrylamide’s cancer risk
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