Lung Cancer Awareness Month

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month and we have been working in partnership with Gateway C and Doctors.net to review and update their fantastic e-learning courses on lung cancer, providing evidence-based advice on best practice:

Click the links here to take you to the relevant website(requires log in details):

Gateway C: Lung Cancer- Early Diagnosis (available in England only)

DNUK: Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancer

We have also reviewed and updated the Lung Cancer Insight for Scotland to provide Scottish GPs with a bite-sized practical resource to support the recognition and referral of patients with possible lung cancer symptoms.

If its helpful to have a reminder of when the different awareness weeks and months are, have a look at our CRUK Cancer Awareness Month Calendar

CRUK Health Professional Urological Campaign

Urgent referrals for suspected urological cancers have been one of the slowest to recover during the COVID-19 pandemic and fewer people have been starting treatment for urological cancers. We continue to monitor the activity and you can find the most recent statistics on the CRUK COVID-19 stats page here.

If you are a healthcare professional, visit our Health Professional Cancer & COVID-19 Hub which highlights the latest evidence and key actions to take to support the recognition and referral of suspected urological cancers. On this page you will find a video by Dr Joe Mays, one of our CRUK GPs, discussing some of the key challenges and actions to consider when managing patients with suspected urological cancer in primary care.

Theres also a recently updated Urological Cancers module hosted on Doctors.net (login required) that you might find helpful.

In addition to the health professional-facing activity, NHS England and Public Health England are also running a Help us Help You campaign until the end of October, highlighting blood in pee as a sign of cancer along with other abdominal symptoms.

For more information and resources for the NHSE Help us Help You Campaign click here.

Refreshed CRUK Improving Early Diagnosis of Cancer 'Waterfall' Infographic, 2021

Earlier this year we undertook a refresh of the CRUK Waterfall infographic. While there were not any new data on which to update the estimates of contribution to stage shift, we consolidated a couple of the rows and added in additional key messages which were sometimes getting lost.

What the Waterfall infographic highlights is, that there is no one thing thatll address late-stage burden achieving early diagnosis is a complex problem that needs to be tackled on a range of fronts at all levels of the system.

We continue to keep the Waterfall infographic under review and will update it as further data and evidence become available.

To find out more, have a look at our dedicated CRUK ED homepage and also have a read of our blog "How can we diagnose more cancers earlier?" clicking on the link below.

Cancer Awareness Measures (CAM) Survey

CRUK launched its latest Cancer Awareness Measure (CAM) survey in September 2021. This research aims to understand the UK public's attitudes, awareness and behaviours in relation to cancer prevention, screening and early diagnosis. Following on from two other waves of the survey conducted since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, this research is a rich opportunity to understand how these measures are recovering as well as strengthen our understanding of geographical, socioeconomic and demographic variation. The insights will be used to inform interventions to encourage timely symptom presentation, screening engagement and cancer-related health behaviours amongst other things. CRUK disseminates reports and journal publications but get in touch if youre interested to find out more in the meantime at [email protected]

CRUK Early Diagnosis Research - Virtual Session Autumn 2021

Due to the success of our Virtual Series in February and March 2021, the team behind the Early Diagnosis Research Conference are hosting a further session on Inequalities in the Early Diagnosis of Cancer on the afternoon of Thursday 18th November and we are really pleased to confirm that Professor Bernard Rachet, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is one of our confirmed speakers.

To register for the session on Thursday 18th November 2021, please click below. You will also need to register to access the recording of the session afterwards.
More information including a FAQ can be found on our series webpage. Email us if you have any other questions: [email protected].

NCRI COVID-19 Dashboard

NCRI has launched a dashboard of cancer and COVID-19 research which lists research projects looking at the impact of Covid-19 on cancer care and patients. Working together with Cancer Research UK, the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS) and the Cancer Alliance Data, Evaluation and Analysis Service (CADEAS), 89 studies have been identified and uploaded to the dashboard. Researchers with studies in the area of cancer and Covid-19 are encouraged to upload their research via the website.

MHRA Consultation on Medical Device Regulation

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has launched a 10-week consultation on changes to how medical devices will be regulated across the UK.

This consultation is comprehensive and covers a broad range of regulatory issues from requirements for running clinical investigations, to how devices are assessed before being placed on the market through to importer and distributor obligations and post-market surveillance, transparency and the role of patients.

It is an opportunity to help ensure the safety and quality of medical devices that many of us rely on. They would like to hear from those who research, manufacture, supply and use medical devices and the wider public.

For more information, please see the consultation announcement.

The consultation will close at 11.45pm on 25th November 2021

On the 5th October MHRA are holding a webinar aimed at industry professionals and stakeholders, where you can find out more about the consultation background and how to respond. You will have the opportunity to submit questions about the consultation.

Please see this webinar page for more details and to book your place.

Upcoming Webinars and Conferences

NB Medical webinars for GPs

Cancer Research UK is pleased to support NB Medical's mini-series of 4 1-hour webinars for GPs on Early Diagnosis.

We have 2 remaining webinars scheduled in the series:

Register here

Gateway C webinars (Available in England only)

Gateway C are running a series of free webinars for Health Professionals. If you have missed any of them you can watch the recordings using the link below and register for forthcoming events.

Webinars include:

Register here

Book your free place at Best Practice 2021

Returning to the NEC in Birmingham on 13th-14th October 2021, Best Practice is the UKs number one event for general practice and primary care communities.

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