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Lauricia Kabila: A Journey from South Africa to the UK in Cancer Research

As we celebrate Black History Month, Lauricia’s story highlights the vital contributions of Black professionals in advancing cancer research and promoting equitable healthcare for all.

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Introducing Franziska Koehler

Today we’re welcoming Franziska Koehler, who is starting a PhD in the ICON group. We caught up with Franziska to hear more.

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Building a Cancer Survival Index

In 2010, ICON members Bernard Rachet and Manuela Quaresma were part of a team commissioned to build and deliver a tool to measure the effectiveness of UK cancer services. This tool, named the cancer survival index, condenses large streams of cancer data into a single output and the methods used to create the index have now been published in Cancer Epidemiology as an open-source guide to creating your own cancer survival index. 

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Understanding Socio-Economic Disparities in Colon Cancer Diagnosis: Insights from Hospital Emergency Admissions

Nearly a third of colon cancers, one of the most common cancers in England, are diagnosed by emergency admission, with this proportion being much higher among patients living in socio-economically […]

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World Cancer Day 2024

On World Cancer Day 2024, we spoke to members of ICON to hear some reflections and introspection. We posed the question; how and why did you end up researching cancer inequalities, and what motivates you to keep researching in this space?

Here’s what they had to say.

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Welcome to Eva Kagenaar

Today we’re welcoming Eva Kagenaar, who will be working on the SORT study at ICON. We caught up with Eva to hear more.

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​​Event – Beyond cancer: Film screening and Q&A​

To mark World Cancer Day 2024, the Centre for Global Chronic Conditions, Inequalities in Cancer Outcomes Network (ICON), and the Cancer Interest Group are co-hosting a film screening of ‘Beyond cancer’ on 8 February.

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Welcome to Koki Shimizu

Today we’re welcoming Koki Shimizu. We caught up with Koki to learn more about him.

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October’s ICON day

October’s ICON Day was full, varied, and also happened to be my first as Communications Officer for ICON. Here’s a summary of what went on.

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Interning with the ICON group at LSHTM

We spoke with our 2023 intern, Princess Obayori, to find out more about her experience of interning with the ICON group, and how LSHTM’s partnership with HDR UK began.