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Oct 18

Cancer and lifestyle – research round up

Park SY et al. Alcohol Intake and Colorectal Cancer Risk in the Multiethnic Cohort Study. Am J Epidemiol. (2018) Sep 15 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwy208 https://thescpn.org/2CrDtb7 The WCRF reported convincing evidence that alcohol is a risk factor for colorectal cancer (CRC) above 30g per day. Due to homogeneity in previously ...

Oct 18

Expert insight

By Miss Susan Moug, Consultant Surgeon, RAH | Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, University of Glasgow Note from the Editor: Miss Moug presented at the 2019 SCPN conference on this topic. Her slides can be found here. 1. What is the difference between prehabilitation and rehabilitation in cancer care? Basically it is a ...

Oct 18

Cancer Incidence in Scotland 2016

By Andrew Deas, Information Services Division, NHS National Services Scotland In 2016, 31,331 people were diagnosed with cancer in Scotland (16,084 women and 15,247 men). This was an increase from 28,048 people ten years previously. As discussed in the previous newsletter (volume 9, issue 3), these figures do not include ...

Oct 18

Cervical cancer screening – ensuring messages and services are relevant to everyone

By Dr Christine Campbell, University of Edinburgh, Christine.Campbell@ed.ac.uk Thankfully, the number of women diagnosed with, and dying from, cervical cancer has fallen dramatically since organised cervical screening was made available in the 1960s, in line with many other high-income countries. More recently, the ...

Oct 18

Have you seen this paper?

GBD 2016 Alcohol Collaborators (2018) Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet; 392: 1015–35 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31310-2 This wide reaching study, which was based on pre-existing work, aimed ...

Jul 18

Cancer and lifestyle – research round up

Prevalence of beliefs about actual and mythical causes of cancer and their association with socio-demographic and health-related characteristics: Findings from a cross-sectional survey in England. Shahab L et al. Eur J Cancer. (2018) doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2018.03.029 https://thescpn.org/2K0IfAI The ...

Jul 18

Have you seen this report?

As many of our regular readers know, the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) Network has an ongoing programme of research evaluation looking at the evidence for cancer prevention and cancer survivorship related to diet, nutrition and physical activity. This programme has produced the series of Continuous Update Project ...

Jul 18

Expert Insight

We asked Professor Sarah Wild to provide an update on the association between diabetes and cancer. Sarah is an epidemiologist at the University of Edinburgh and an honorary consultant in public health at NHS Lothian. A large proportion of her research is based on analysis of the excellent routine data available in Scotland. ...

Jul 18

Spotlight on Scottish Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer

It is often thought that skin cancer is uncommon because we don’t see the statistics. In fact skin cancer is the most common cancer in Scotland largely due to UV exposure – not usually deadly but not desirable. We asked Andrew Deas, Information Services Division, NHS National Services Scotland to tell us more. ...

Jul 18

Blueprint to beat cancer: updated WCRF Cancer Prevention Recommendations

By Deborah Hyde, World Cancer Research Fund UK Lifestyles featuring little physical activity and lots of fast and processed food are fuelling overweight and obesity, resulting in dramatic increases in cancer rates worldwide including across Scotland, according to the latest cancer prevention report from World Cancer ...

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