Cancer Research Group
A multidisciplinary group working with clinicians researchers and patients to improve pathways to cancer diagnosis.
A major focus of the group is building interdisciplinary teams to deliver projects with impact and direct patient benefit. To achieve this the cancer research group works closely with researchers from other disciplines and institutions, NHS commissioners, colleagues providing diagnostics and cancer care in the hospital setting, patients, and cancer charities.
This multidisciplinary approach enables the team to use the most appropriate research methodologies to address pressing research questions that have arisen out of direct clinical care. This means the group are involved in qualitative projects with patients and clinicians, big data projects using routinely collected health records data, prospective studies collecting new data about novel interventions, health service development projects within the NHS, and projects to synthesise available published evidence.
CURRENT Projects:
CASNET2: An RCT to evaluate an electronic CAncer Safety NETting TOOlkit
GLANCE: Gut feeLings for cANCEr in general practice: an interview study with patients and GPs
LOWCAN: Loss Of Weight as a predictor of CANcer in primary care
MAINROUTE: Monitoring Attendance INvestigations Referrals and OUTomEs
MyPath: Pathways to Myeloma diagnosis
NETTD: Safety NETting for Timely Diagnosis in primary care
RAPTOR-C19: RApid community Point-of-care Testing fOR Covid-19
SCAN: the Suspected CANcer Diagnostic Pathway
SympFIT: Symptomatic Faecal Immunochemical Testing
We link with researchers in several other research groups within the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences:
Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
Clinical Informatics and Health Outcomes Research Group
Medical Sociology and Health Experiences Research Group
Monitoring and Diagnosis (MaDOx)
NIHR Community Healthcare MedTech and In Vitro Diagnostics Co-operative
Our team
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Brian D Nicholson
GP NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer
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Clare Bankhead
Associate Professor
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Jason Oke
Senior Statistician
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Julie McLellan
Research Officer
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Richard Hobbs
Head of Department
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Rafael Perera
Director Medical Statistics
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Claire Friedemann Smith
Researcher
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Constantinos Koshiaris
Medical Statistician and Researcher
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Carl Heneghan
Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine
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Sue Ziebland
Professor of Medical Sociology and Co-Director of MS&HERG
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Gail Hayward
Associate Professor
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Philip Turner
Manager and Senior Researcher, NIHR Community Healthcare MIC
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Simon de Lusignan
Professor of Primary Care and Clinical Informatics
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Julia Hippisley-Cox
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and General Practice
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David Mant
Emeritus Professor of General Practice
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Richard Stevens
Associate Professor, Medical Statistics
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Susannah Fleming
Senior Quantitative Researcher
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Paul Aveyard
Professor of Behavioural Medicine
