Our review "Polygenic scores in Cancer" co-authored with Siddhartha Kar, Antonis Antoniou and Xin Yang now out in Nature Reviews Cancer . rdcu.be/dhpvD

PREDICT Breast and Prostate are so valuable for care of patients with breast and prostate, would Cancer Research UK Breast Cancer Now Prostate Cancer UK find website hosts?

📢 Job opportunity Come join me as a postdoc researcher Cambridge University working on stochastic modelling for cancer screening. Application closing on 13th August. To apply jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41966/

Artsakh Peace Festival, virtual platform of classical musicians united to open the Road of Life to Artsakh m.youtube.com/@ArtsakhPeaceF…

If you like multistate / survival modelling you may be interested in this position jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41966/ collaborating with some good people in a neighbouring department.

12 recommendations to improve representation of minoritised groups in research in cancer #earlydetection nature.com/articles/s4141… by the #ACED funded REPRESENT group

Just to remind you why we do (ovarian) cancer research, here are some patient stories from patients and the CRUKCambridge Ovarian Programme. crukcambridgecentre.org.uk/news/ovarian-c…

We’re looking for a (senior) research associate to assist building the Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK Cancer Data Driven Detection #CD3 initiative. An expert in health data science? Check out this exciting & flexible opportunity Cambridge University jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43687/ Closes 8 Nov #epitwitter

🔬New findings on breast cancer risk prediction: our study in npj Precision Oncology reveals the power of epigenetics in understanding risk, focusing genetic X nonheritable factors captured on the epigenome in the "right" surrogate sample 🧬 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41698…

Introducing the TRANSFORM trial. A £42 million research programme, led and developed by us and backed by £16 million of government funding. It's the biggest and most ambitious prostate cancer trial in 20 years. 👉 Find out more: bit.ly/3SInU51

1/n An all new version of PREDICT breast is now live at breast.v3.predict.cam Thanks to Alexandra Freeman, Mehdi Hajjam, @ProfWishart, David Spiegelhalter and Isabelle Grootes. V2.2 still available at breast.predict.cam. Major changes are....

Great to see this paper out - a DCE on risk-stratified breast screening with Charlotte Kelley Jones Suzanne Scott Yasmina Okan Nora Pashayan & Steve Morris Cancer Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38828503/

We’re looking for a research associate to develop simulation models for evaluating cancer early detection. An expert in stochastic modelling? Check out this exciting opportunity Cambridge University jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47297/

📢 In print this week on the role of polygenic risk scores in cancer screening 👇 thelancet.com/journals/lance… Co-authored with rising ⭐ clinical academic Sarah Perrott, who recently completed the research rotation of her specialised foundation programme with us at Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge

Interested in a 4-year PhD studying the genetics of BMI and comorbidities? Don't wait, apply for my AstraZeneca-funded studentship w/ Xiao JIANG 🔗: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48333/ (due October 31)! BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute CambridgeCardio DPHPC CambridgeATS

Latest publication from the group on evaluating the performance of CanRisk / BOADICEA canrisk.org in predicting ovarian cancer risk Paper: nature.com/articles/s4141… Thread by Xin 👇

1/2 We have previously developed a method for generating a poygenic model using summary statistics - called S4. We have compared S4 with LDPred2 for 12 different phenotypes as well as developing a composite S4+LDPred2 method. link.springer.com/10.1186/s12864…

Applications for the ACED 4-Year PhD Studentship at are now open!! Deadline Monday 4th November 2024. Further details earlycancer.cam.ac.uk/aced-phd-stude…

🙌Hands up if you're a highly motivated and talented scientist looking for a unique, multi-disciplinary training programme in cancer early detection?🙌 Apply for the ACED 4-year #PhD Studentship by 4th Nov 2024 and you could be joining our amazing team! earlycancer.cam.ac.uk/aced-phd-stude…

Assessment of a Polygenic Risk Score in Screening for Prostate Cancer (BARCODE1) out on NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… Study evaluated a targeted #ProstateCancer screening approach using polygenic risk scores derived from 130 known genetic variants, identifying men aged 55–69 in