CSG news

May 2019

To read about our new pilot study led by Dr Laura Woods, click on the link below:

Developing a risk score for pancreatic cancer diagnosis using machine learning techniques applied to linked routine data: a pilot study

March 2019

For the latest news story about the CONCORD programme, follow the link below

The importance of global surveillance of cancer survival

January 2019

Read about our experience engaging with patients and carers to create art for an exhibition below

Their cancer journeys: artistic expressions of living with cancer

November 2018

A showcase for population-based cancer research in the University College London Partners Academic Health Science Centre

Cancer in the population – a UCL Partners Symposium

June 2018

Professor Michel Coleman receives the Calum S. Muir memorial award:

Prof Michel Coleman wins the prestigious Calum S. Muir memorial award

January 2018

On Thursday 1 February, the CONCORD programme will launch the latest and most up-to-date article in the series, CONCORD-3. For more information click here

http://www.csg.lshtm.ac.uk/research/themes/concord-programme

February 2017

On Monday 13^th February, the Cancer Survival Group (CSG) co-hosted a meeting with the National Cancer Research Institute’s Consumer Forum, for over 50 external invitees including patients, carers and others affected by cancer (also known as ‘consumers’). See more details and photos below:

http://www.csg.lshtm.ac.uk/csg-and-ncri-consumer-forum-driving-with-data-a-journey-into-cancer-epidemiology/

December 2016

The latest Office for National Statistics bulletin on cancer survival, produced in collaboration with The Cancer Survival Group, was published today, 06 December 2016. For the full release follow bit.ly/2fZnkxg

September 2016

Interested in childhood cancer research? We are seeking candidates for a doctoral scholarship – deadline 25 October!

Our interactive map is now available! Find out about our research and collaborations around the world: http://csg.lshtm.ac.uk

August 2016

The Cancer Survival Group is looking forward to welcoming over 100 delegates to our conference on time-to-event analyses! #PTA2016

http://www.csg.lshtm.ac.uk/pta2016

July 2016

New survival statistics for rare cancers have been published on our website. Work from the CRUK-funded Cancer Policy Programme within the CSG has resulted in estimates of net survival and the probability of cancer death (also known as the crude probability of death) for patients in England who were diagnosed aged 15-89 years with one of 13 rare cancers between 1999 and 2013 who had follow-up time between 2009 and 2013. For full results see below:

http://www.csg.lshtm.ac.uk/health-policy-applications-cancer-survival-research/rare-cancers

May 2016

Congratulations Claudia Allemani, winner of 2016 FPH Global Public Health Award for cancer survival research! http://bit.ly/27CJJDO

Abstract deadline for our International Conference is this Sunday – 1st May! — More details below:

http://www.csg.lshtm.ac.uk/pta2016

February 2016

Available now as OnlineOpen: The latest article – “Impact of deprivation on breast cancer survival among women eligible for mammographic screening in the West Midlands (UK) and New South Wales (Australia): Women diagnosed 1997-2006” by Dr Laura Woods, Cancer Survival Group Lecturer and CR UK Postdoc Fellow — See more at: International Journal of Cancer.

Available now as OnlineOpen: The latest article – “Are international differences in breast cancer survival between Australia and England present amongst both screen-detected women and non-screen-detected women? Survival estimates for women diagnosed in West Midlands and New South Wales 1997-2006” by Dr Laura Woods, Cancer Survival Group Lecturer and CR UK Postdoc Fellow — See more at: International Journal of Cancer.

We invite applications for a 4-year CRUK-funded PhD studentship; possible start dates are the end of April or the end of September 2016 – See more at: Cancer Research UK Doctoral Studentship in Cancer Survival.

Our annual short course on the Principles, Methods and Applications of Cancer Survival will run from 27 June to 1 July 2016. For more information go to “Annual courses“.

January 2016

Dr Gary Abel, senior lecturer and statistician at the University of Exeter Medical School, gave a talk on the issues around understanding the variation in healthcare organisation indicator scores. Using the statistical concept of reliability, and examples from general practice profiles for cancer, he discussed the implications for the use and public reporting of these indicator variables, and how we might quantify chance and true underlying variability:

Prof Richard Martin, Head of Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Bristol, and his colleague, Dr Philip Haycock, spoke on Mendelian randomisation at LSHTM in January 2016. They described how these emerging methods could overcome some limitations of observational research such as confounding and reverse causation, and how they could be used to make causal inferences or identify targets for disease prevention. Much of their work focuses on cancer:

December 2015:

Margaret Grayson, a breast cancer survivor in Northern Ireland, explains why sharing cancer patient data for ethical medical research is so important for the benefit of future patients:

November 2015:

Our lecturer in Biostatistics, Dr. Aurélien Belot, has developed a new R package called “the mixed effects excess hazard model”. For more details visit our “Tools for analysis” page and follow the “Mexhaz package” link.

May 2015:

We have two fully funded PhD Studentships that are now open for applications. For more details please follow this link: PhD Studentships 2015.

March 2015:

The life tables for the CONCORD-2 project have been made available to the CONCORD Working Group

November 2014:

Our annual short course on the Principles, Methods and Applications of Cancer Survival will run 22-26 June 2015. For more information visit our online application page.

April 2014:

New Cancer Survival Group research, for Cancer Research UK, finds that half of all cancer patients now survive at least 10 years.

March 2014:

The Cancer Survival Group is now on Twitter, to share updates and news. Follow us @CSG_LSHTM