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Jul 18

Shout out for ActWELL Volunteers

Breast Cancer Now is recruiting volunteer lifestyle telephone coaches to join our team and support the delivery of the ActWELL trial. ActWELL is a research trial that will deliver advice on lifestyle change for breast cancer risk reduction to women over 50. Lifestyle telephone coaches will provide telephone support ...

Apr 18

Cancer and lifestyle – research round up

Effects of physical exercise on breast cancer related secondary lymphedema: a systematic review Baumann FT et al. (2018) Breast Cancer Research and Treatment DOI: 10.1007/s10549-018-4725-y Improvements in the early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of breast cancer over recent years has improved survival rates ...

Apr 18

Have you seen this paper?

Accelerating the pace of cancer prevention – right now Colditz GA and Emmons KM (2018) Cancer Prevention Research DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207. CAPR-17-0282 This paper argues that there is sufficient evidence to convince us that more than 50% of cancers can be prevented by applying knowledge we have previously gained to reduce ...

Apr 18

Scottish Prostate Cancer Statistics

By Andrew Deas, Information Services Division, NHS National Services Scotland Incidence Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Scottish men. One in five of all cancers diagnosed in men are prostate cancers. It is also the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer overall after lung, breast and ...

Apr 18

ActWELL Study: An RCT to assess the impact of a lifestyle intervention in women invited to NHS breast screening

By Stephanie Gallant, Trial Manager, ActWELL study The ActWELL study is recruiting well across four Scottish sites – Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh. We are over half way towards our recruitment goal of 552 women and on target to finish recruitment later this year. All women attending for routine breast ...

Oct 17

The school environment to prevent overweight and obesity

Laura Martin, Public Health Intelligence Advisor, NHS Health Scotland Note from the editor There is a strong evidence base that being overweight or obese increases the risk of developing 11 types of cancer – bowel, breast (in post-menopausal women), gallbladder, kidney, liver, oesophagus, ovary, pancreas, prostate (advanced), ...

Oct 17

Ongoing Scottish Research

Improving bowel cancer screening uptake in traditional non-responders Aaron Quyn, Surgical Registrar, University of Dundee Population-based CRC (bowel) screening programmes have an overall uptake of just over 50%. It is known that those who are younger, male, more deprived and from certain ethnic minority groups are less likely to ...

Oct 17

Cancer and Lifestyle – Research Roundup

Fardet A et al. (2017) Critical Reviews in Oncology / Hematology A strong family history of colorectal cancer (CRC) is known to raise an individual’s risk of developing the disease. To date this population group has been kept under in colonoscopic surveillance but interventions and support about lifestyle choices are not routinely ...

Aug 17

Cancer Incidence in Scotland

Andrew Deas and Greig Stanners, Information Services Division, NHS National Services Scotland The Scottish Cancer Registry has collected data on cancer since 1958. The data are used for a wide variety of purposes including research and planning of cancer services. The data are also used in the annual publication of cancer incidence ...

Aug 17

Have you seen these funded studies?

The Chief Scientist Office (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 programmes covering the broad spectrum of applied health and care related research. Following the publication of the ...

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