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Brain Tumour Pathway – a REDCap Project Critical to accelerating the discovery of new therapies for brain tumours and their translation into the clinic, is to investigate diagnosis, treatment and outcomes at a population level, mapping this to molecular interrogation of resected tumour tissue, and liquid biopsies from patients. In collaboration with researchers at […]
…Our new R package! Methods developed in social network science have been successfully applied in the biomedical domain over for the past two decades. Examples include splitting biological networks into communities, to discover highly enriched complexes with specific diseases and functions. We developed the Bioconductor package BioNAR to provide biomedical researchers with a network analysis […]
This Data Linkage study exploits historically strong maternity and cancer registration data in Scotland to produce more evidence to help women in their decision making on pregnancy after treatment for early breast cancer. The impact of childbirth on survival after breast cancer remains controversial. National cancer and birth data were used to analyse an unbiased […]
Disparities in breast cancer care quality have reduced Regional variation in chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer across Scotland has reduced significantly over the past 15 years, according to a new study: December 2021 The findings suggest that there is now limited inequalities in treatment across the majority of the country’s 14 health boards. Experts from […]
Edinburgh was one of eight cancer centres from accross the world that was able to contribute real world data to a pooled analysis that validated RCB as a strong predictor in all breast cancer subtypes.
We believe that independance and transparency are a central requirement for the valid generation of Real World Evidence. This special issue of Value in Health highlights some of the issues. https://www.valueinhealthjournal.com/issue/S1098301520X00118
Prospects for future research and a reflection on lessons learned: The Bowel Cancer Intelligence UK Hub are working with Public Health Scotland and the University of Edinburgh to make Health Data available and research ready for the colorectal cancer research community. This webinar summarises the project and future opportunities. This introduces the paper sumarising the […]
Data from a single-center study in Scotland suggested that there were more patients with lung cancer admitted acutely with cancer, non-COVID-19-related illness during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Early and late lockdown were characterized by a reduction in self-presentation and longer resulting admission suggesting that patients were admitted with more complex pathology and consequently had longer admission,” […]
Public Health Scotland webinar, SCRIS: How data is helping support improved cancer care services in Scotland’, took place on the 18 January 2021 and featured presentations from speakers involved in the implementation, delivery and use of the SCRIS project. Full details on the PHS website. Watch the presentations again: Professor Aileen Keel CBE – SCRIS: […]
DataLoch is a repository of linked health and social care administrative data sets from Edinburgh and the South East of Scotland. Edinburgh Cancer Informatics is working closely with the DataLoch team to make cancer data accross the region available for research. Read a good summary the DataLoch on the eCRUSADers blog https://ecrusad.co.uk/2020/12/03/dataloch/#q1
