Research Projects – Inequalities in Cancer Outcomes Network

Inequalities in cancer outcomes

This Cancer Research UK funded Programme has as its main ambition to reduce inequalities in cancer survival, ensuring that everyone, regardless of sociodemographic background, benefits from improvements in cancer care.

QUALITOP

This four-year ERC Horizon 2020 funded project (2020-2023), involves 13 institutions from 9 different countries and is led by the Hospices Civils de Lyon, France. It aims to develop a platform to collect, manage and analyse a large amount of data…

Developing a risk score for pancreatic cancer

This project on pancreatic cancer initiated in 2019, with an award from the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund. The aim is to use historic GP and hospital data to identify patients who …

Individual and contextual deprivation

The aim of this ESRC funded project is to quantify simultaneously the impact of individual and contextual levels of deprivation on the excess mortality hazard, and to describe how the …

Policy Research Unit in Cancer Awareness

Since 2011, we have been part of the twice awarded Policy Research Unit in Cancer Awareness, Screening and Early Diagnosis funded by the NIHR Policy Research Programme.

Examining the role of comorbidity in socio-economic inequalities in short-term mortality among colon cancer patients in England
June 15, 2021 by H Fowler
Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers diagnosed in England. Despite the universal healthcare system, the most deprived groups of colon cancer patients have a poorer prognosis than […]
Can we screen for pancreatic cancer? Identifying a sub-population of patients at high risk of subsequent diagnosis using machine learning techniques applied to primary care data.
June 7, 2021 by Ananya Malhotra
BACKGROUND: Pancreatic cancer (PC) represents a substantial public health burden. Pancreatic cancer patients have very low survival due to the difficulty of identifying cancers early when the tumour is localised […]
Economic impact of avoidable cancer deaths caused by diagnostic delay during the COVID-19 pandemic: A national population-based modelling study in England, UK.
June 3, 2021 by Adrian Gheorghe
INTRODUCTION: Delays in cancer diagnosis arose from the commencement of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) introduced in the UK in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our earlier work predicted […]
Socioeconomic Inequalities and Ethnicity Are Associated with a Positive COVID-19 Test among Cancer Patients in the UK Biobank Cohort.
May 27, 2021 by Shing Fung Lee
We explored the role of socioeconomic inequalities in COVID-19 incidence among cancer patients during the first wave of the pandemic. We conducted a case-control study within the UK Biobank cohort […]
Are socio-economic inequalities in breast cancer survival explained by peri-diagnostic factors?
May 6, 2021 by Laura M Woods
BACKGROUND: Patients living in more deprived localities have lower cancer survival in England, but the role of individual health status at diagnosis and the utilisation of primary health care in […]

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