The SCPN Newsletter: Volume 8, Issue 2

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Cancer and lifestyle – research round up

Determining cancer survivors’ preferences to inform new models of follow-up care Murchie P, Norwood P, Pietrucin-Materek M, et al. (2016) British Journal of Cancer; Vol.115, pages ...

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Have you seen these CSO funded studies?

CSO provides funding opportunities for researchers in Scottish Universities and Health Boards to undertake projects (up to £300k and three years) through two response mode research grant ...

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Cancer survivorship – living with and beyond cancer

Cancer survivorship is a term we are all becoming more familiar with and in its widest sense includes the time from a cancer diagnosis being made to death. It is thought there may be currently ...

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Scottish Bowel Screening Programme Statistics May 2014 – April 2016

by Andrew Deas, Information Services Division, NHS National Services Scotland The Information Services Division (ISD) of NHS National Services Scotland publish statistics relating to the ...

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Have you seen these papers?

ESPEN guidelines on nutrition in cancer patients Cancer patients frequently suffer from malnutrition and metabolic derangements whether due to their tumour itself or the effects of ...

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Have you given up your treats for #treatfreetuesday?

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) is encouraging people in Scotland to give up unnecessary treats every Tuesday as part of its drive to start breaking Scotland’s unhealthy snacking habits. Taking a ...

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Scottish fruits and vegetables – spring

Spring is a great time for physical activity in the garden but also a great time for early vegetables and rhubarb! Two lowly tablespoons of cooked rhubarb provides one portion of our five a day. ...

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CERVICA – Tayside’s smear guru for cervical screening

Dr Wendy McMullen, Cervical Cancer Lead, Dr Emma Fletcher, Specialty Registrar Public Health and Dr Kalpana Ragupathy, Lead Colposcopist, NHS Tayside The uptake of cervical screening is ...

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Scottish Government urged to curb alcohol marketing

By Gillian Bell, Senior Communications Coordinator, Alcohol Focus Scotland In a new report, Promoting good health from childhood: Reducing the impact of alcohol marketing on children in ...

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‘Health champions’ introduced at the State Hospital

By Karen Burnett and Tracy Hillan, Health Champions, The State Hospitaland Many patients with serious mental health conditions, such as bi-polar, psychosis and schizophrenia die of the ...

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The SCPN Newsletter: Volume 8, Issue 2

In this issue we have a section focusing on cancer survivorship as well as our regular features - examples of good practice, public health initiatives, recipes and interesting studies which contribute to the body of evidence on cancer prevention.

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