Research Round-up Research Round-up

This is the final taster episode we are releasing in the lead-up to Ca-PRI 2024.

Famke Huizinga is a psychologist and PhD researcher interested in lifestyle, cancer, medical psychology and epidemiology

Here she discusses her work in physical activity counselling with cancer survivors in primary care. Famke and team are looking beyond testing program effectiveness and shifting their focus towards implementation and evaluation in general practice.

This is the second of three taster episodes we are releasing in the lead-up to Ca-PRI 2024.

Allison Drosdowsky is a PhD candidate and Health Services Researcher with a background in quantitative research methods and biostatistics. Her research interests include investigating timely cancer diagnosis through use of linked datasets.

Here she discusses her work on the role of pre-diagnosis intervals on colorectal cancer outcomes: a linked data study

Today we are speaking with researchers Nicola Creagh and Ebony Verbunt from the University of Melbourne’s School of Population and Global Health, Centre for Health Policy. Their team has published a systematic narrative review on primary care practice-based interventions and their effect on participation in population-based cancer screening programs in the Primary Health Care Research and Development Journal.

This is the first of three taster episodes we are releasing in the lead-up to Ca-PRI 2024.

Sarah Bailey is an Associate Professor of Primary Care Diagnostics at the University of Exeter. Her PhD established the link between platelet count and cancer in primary care. She now leads a portfolio of research focussed on cancer in primary care, and the development and implementation of new detection strategies for symptomatic patients. Sarah's work includes practice-changing research on the use of blood-based markers of cancer, faecal immunochemical tests for symptomatic patients, and the integration of genetic risk scores into suspected cancer pathways.

Nikki Davis speaks with Dr Gemma Skaczkowski, a Research Fellow from the University of South Australia, about her systematic review: The nature and impact of patient and public involvement in cancer prevention, screening and early detection research.

Nikki Davis is a member of PC4’s consumer community and is our guest host for this episode.

In this conversation they discuss:
-What constitutes patient involvement
-What research stage most commonly involves consumers
-And the benefits of patient and consumer involvement

This review found that involvement is increasing but more involvement is needed across each step of the research process. You can read the full review here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0091743522004777?via=ihub

Dr Kristi Milley speaks with Associate Professor Dani Margalit from Harvard Medical School. She specialises in Head and Neck Cancer Treatment and is also the Director of Radiation Oncology at the Dana-Farber/Brigham Merkel Cell Cancer Centre. We also welcome back Dr Rebecca Venchiarutti onto the podcast, a Head and Neck Research Fellow at Chris O'Brien Lifehouse and at the University of Sydney. Dani and Rebecca are part of a team that has published a new systematic review about interventions for head and neck cancer survivors in the journal Head and Neck.