New paper with Matthew Barclay, Robert Rintoul, Fiona Walter and Colleagues, characterising risk of new smoking-related cancer in lung cancer survivors up to ten years post-diagnosis phpc.cam.ac.uk/pcu/lung-cance… via Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge CanTest

Excellent step-by-step guide to working with open NHS data by Fiona Grimm link.medium.com/cZtF4vib3U Surprising that NHS England do not release these stats formatted for easy re-use, as recommended by GSS gss.civilservice.gov.uk/policy-store/r…

.TransPennine Express what kind of service cancels full trains halfway to their destination? 0840 Leeds to Manchester what a joke of a way to start a morning.

Looks like a great session to me 😀

Measuring the quality of measures of quality? My head hurts! I love this. Plenty of scope for arguments though (hmm table 3... looks like there was plenty of disagreement just among the authors!)

We should have put something like this in the actual paper 😄

“Liquid biopsy” for cancer screening will be piloted in the NHS - @DryBreadnRadio and I are optimistic, but concerned about the lack of details on intended evaluation. We should use this opportunity to make sure it really helps. bmj.com/content/372/bm…

East of England #cancer registry data (high quality staging data going back over 20 years) shows majority of ⬆ in #renal cancer incidence accounted for by ⬆ early-stage disease, and incidence of late-stage disease actually ⬇: tinyurl.com/y48wyawd #NCRAS

Great new paper out. Ignoring the public health message - which Yoryos covers below - restricted cubic splines are a really nice way of modelling non-linear age associations!

New analytical position in cancer healthcare / EHR epidemiology and data science open Behavioural Science & Health UCL jobs.ac.uk/job/CNC781/res… -closes 2nd March UCL IEHC UCL Population Health Sciences UCL Statistical Science

Had a lot of fun working on this study. It even motivated me to learn more R!

1/12 With colleagues in 14 jurisdictions in 6 countries we have just published a study on the predictors and consequences of cancer diagnosis within 30 days after an emergency hospital admission (=emergency presentation) in The Lancet Oncology thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/… A🧵:

Our 48-author 6-country #ICBP study in The Lancet Oncology now with a podcast: "Monitoring emergency cancer presentations, and identifying and acting on contributing behavioural and health-care factors, is a global priority for cancer control." tinyurl.com/2p8hkwue

Censoring competing events is common in medical studies but leads to biased cumulative incidence estimators. This article looks at an example of this and suggests alternative methods to avoid this bias bmj.com/content/378/bm…

People with cancer in the UK are treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy less often than in comparable countries, according to two major new studies co-led by Prof YoryosLyratzopoulos & Dr Matthew Barclay Behavioural Science & Health UCL UCL IEHC, funded by Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK Cancer Research UK Health Professionals ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/feb/…