EKU Podcast: Updates in detecting cancer in primary care

About this episode

Dr Thomas Round interviews Professor Willie Hamilton about updates in cancer detection in primary care.

It is estimated that there are almost 3.5 million people living with cancer in the UK and on average someone is diagnosed with cancer at least every 75 seconds (UK). In this podcast Dr Thomas Round talks to Professor Willie Hamilton, a Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research about the updates to cancer detection in primary care. They reflect on why primary care is so important in this area, the changing epidemiology in cancer and cancer in younger people including the increase in colorectal cancer. They discuss the changes in cancer screening e.g. cervical cancer (introduction of home screening) and bowel cancer (age reduction and Faecal immunochemical test (FIT) thresholds), Positive Predictive Value (PPV), symptomatic presentations, difficult to diagnose cancers and atypical presentations. They also offer top tips for everyday practice and signpost to useful resources. References Best4: Screening for oesophageal health problems NHS Galleri Trail: Detecting cancer early Jess’s Rule: Three strikes and we rethink ERICA Study. Prof. Willie Hamilton Save T, Neal R D, Round T. A multi-cancer early detection (MCED) test: clinical update for GPs . British Journal of General Practice…

People in this episode

Host: Dr Thomas Round

Guest: Professor Willie Hamilton

Topics covered

• cancer detection
• primary care
• screening updates
• colorectal cancer
• symptomatic presentations
• cancer epidemiology

Keywords

• cancer
• primary care
• screening
• colorectal cancer
• FIT thresholds
• PPV
• diagnosis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NHS, British Journal of General Practice, RCGP

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