It has been terrific to, alongside Matthew Barclay and Cristina Renzi, contribute to this innovative work led by Becky White as part of her UCL PhD studies. Thank you The British Journal of General Practice for hosting, disseminating & including in the Journal's 'top-10' papers for 2023 🙏👏

I’m thrilled to receive a Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK International Alliance for Cancer Early Detection (ACED) - Pathway Award for the ICEBERG project 🧊: Improving Cancer Early detection using Blood tEst Results in General practice 🩸 📈 👩🏻‍⚕️ 🦠 Behavioural Science & Health UCL YoryosLyratzopoulos Cambridge University

Many congratulations Dr Meena Rafiq , onwards and upwards to even greater things!👏

Guideline concordance for timely chest imaging after new presentations of dyspnoea or haemoptysis in primary care: a retrospective cohort study Dr Monica Koo Dr Luke Mounce Dr Meena Rafiq Mat Callister Hardeep Singh MD Gary Abel YoryosLyratzopoulos thorax.bmj.com/content/79/3/2…

#Sexinequality in #bladdercancer diagnosis may be due to differences in #haematuria frequency and onset between men and women. YoryosLyratzopoulos Fiona Walter Jianhua Wu Wolfson Institute of Population Health Cancer Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis More in our new BJUI Compass paper: doi.org/10.1002/bco2.3…

People living in deprived areas are more likely to receive a colon #cancer diagnosis through emergency hospitalisation. This study, published today in British Journal of Cancer, digs into the details of #inequality in cancer diagnosis. Read more on our website 👉 bit.ly/3QIbPv9

New commentary The Lancet Reg Health-West Pacific from international collaboration with NUS Family Medicine Jose M Valderas Cross-country learning can lead to improved cancer diagnosis and outcomes for all. Wolfson Institute of Population Health Cancer Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis CanTest doi.org/10.1016/j.lanw…

"vaccination has averted 154 million deaths" On the 50th anniversary of WHO's Expanded Programme on Immunization, Naor Bar-Zeev & colleagues quantify the public health impact of vaccination: hubs.ly/Q02ymFn60

"The ED may be involved in the initial identification of cancer for 1 in 5 #patients (65y+)". New findings from US #Medicare data analysis - closely following our work linked below, highlighting concerns for population #Health and #cancer academic.oup.com/jncics/advance… YoryosLyratzopoulos

Patients with as-yet-undetected cancer start using GP healthcare more several months before cancer diagnosis and blood tests may help to diagnose them earlier. Dr Meena Rafiq presents work from UK and Australia Cancer Research UK Health Professionals #CRUKEDConference24 Behavioural Science & Health UCL VCCC Alliance

Day 2 of #CRUKEDconference24 showcases more work from Cancer Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis Jo Waller Suzanne Scott and ends with two great sessions led by @Katriina01 and YoryosLyratzopoulos Great conference with so much thought provoking work!

Come and join us! We are looking for a talented researcher to come and join our team at the University of Surrey. The researcher will contribute to projects on inequalities in #cancer, as part of an National Institute for Health and Care Research unit led by UCL and Cambridge University. Details👉jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

All adults will have 1 diagnostic error in their life. It was an honour to be the Keynote speaker at the World Health Organization (WHO) #WorldPatientSafetyDay in Budapest presenting on how to improve diagnostic safety in primary care 👩🏻‍⚕️

1/3 With colleagues Ruth Swann, YoryosLyratzopoulos, Greg Rubin, Lucy Elliss-Brookes, Sean McPhail we have recently published a study aiming to understand pathways to diagnosis of cancer as an emergency presentation, and their consequences, a bit more pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39167911/

2/3 “Predictors and consequences of different pathways to emergency diagnosis of cancer in England: Evidence from linked national audit and cancer registration data" Ruth Swann, YoryosLyratzopoulos, Greg Rubin, Lucy Elliss-Brookes, Sean McPhail” Cancer Epidemiology pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39167911/

3/3  A third of EP patients were previously referred urgently; faster specialist assessment may have resulted in non-EP diagnosis in some. EP patients who were also emergency-referred had 9-fold higher mortality within a month post-diagnosis, compared to non-EP patients Cancer Research UK Health Professionals

Congratulations on winning one of the best posters Dr Meena Rafiq RCGP Annual Primary Care Conference #RCGPAC

Nonspecific symptoms pose a diagnostic challenge to primary care cancer diagnosis and can result in repeat pre-diagnostic GP presentations. New interventions are needed to help pick up these cancers earlier. Thomas Round 💙 #RCGPAC2024 YoryosLyratzopoulos

Great to hear the primary care cancer OG tag team tell us about the early diagnosis of cancer Thomas Round 💙 Dr Sam Merriel 💙💛 Richard Neal 🇪🇺 Best4 trial: fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR1355… Prostate cancer trial: prostatecanceruk.org/research/trans… MCED: mced.info #rcgpac

Older men with new-onset fatigue are relatively likely to have an undetected cancer, compared to other cohorts. Figure: 1-year disease risk in men bjgp.org/content/early/… Becky White Matthew Barclay @Glyratzopoulos Behavioural Science & Health UCL The UCL Institute of Health Informatics Brian D Nicholson Spiros Denaxas 🦆 Dr Meena Rafiq