Deprivation responsible for 450 breast cancer deaths each year

sj387 — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:09:36 +0000

Research presented today at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool, and funded by Cancer Research UK, examined the effect deprivation has on the stage at which women are diagnosed with breast cancer, and how many lives are lost as a result.

̽��ֱ��researchers, based at the Universities of Leicester and Cambridge, looked at the stage of breast cancer in over 20,000 women diagnosed between 2006-2010 using data from the National Cancer Registration Service (Public Health England). They then calculated the number of lives that would be saved within 5 years of diagnosis if the stage at diagnosis for all deprivation groups matched those of the most affluent women.

̽��ֱ��study estimates that 40 lives would be saved every year in Eastern England if these socioeconomic differences were removed, equivalent to around 450 lives saved in the whole of England every year.

Dr Gary Abel, statistician at the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge and study author, said: “These avoidable deaths are not due to differences in the response to treatment, or the type of breast cancer. Rather these are deaths that might be avoided if cancer was caught as early in women from deprived backgrounds as those from more affluent backgrounds.

“ ̽��ֱ��reason for this inequality may be a combination of these women being less aware of breast cancer symptoms and a greater reluctance to see their GP.”

Dr Julie Sharp, head of health information at Cancer Research UK, said: “Other research shows that women from deprived backgrounds are more likely to feel embarrassed or worried about going to their GP – but it’s important for women to take that step as going to the GP promptly could make all the difference.

“All women should be aware of how their breasts normally look and feel because we know that early diagnosis is one of the most important factors in whether breast cancer treatment is effective.”

Adapted from CRUK press release

Deprivation could be responsible for around 450 deaths from breast cancer every year in England as women in lower income groups are likely to be diagnosed when the disease is more advanced, and treatment is less effective

These are deaths that might be avoided if cancer was caught as early in women from deprived backgrounds as those from more affluent backgrounds

Dr Gary Abel

Rhoda Baer

Woman receiving a mammogram

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Doctor Of Medicine Prizes

tdk25 — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Four doctors have received prizes from the ̽��ֱ��’s School of Clinical Medicine in recognition of outstanding work on their MD dissertations.

An MD, the Doctor of Medicine degree, is the highest medical degree awarded by the ̽��ֱ��, given to medically qualified graduates who submit a dissertation on an approved new area of research.

All the dissertations for the MD degree in each academical year are considered by the MD Committee for the Raymond Horton-Smith Prize and those in appropriate fields for the Sir Lionel Whitby Medal, the Ralph Noble Prizes and the Sir Walter Langdon-Brown Prize.

̽��ֱ��Raymond Horton Prize is for the best MD dissertation of each academic year. It went to Andrew Sutton of Selwyn College for his dissertation 'Diagnosis and management of failed thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction'.

Dr Sutton is currently working as a consultant cardiologist at the James Cook ̽��ֱ�� Hospital, Middlesborough. His work was conducted over seven years at the South Cleveland Hospitalk and has been widely praised in cardiological circles.

Dr Stephen Barclay, Macmillan Cancer Relief Clinical Fellow, GP and Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine, was awarded the Ralph Noble Prize for his MD thesis "General Practitioner provision of palliative care in the UK".

His thesis specifically addresses research into GP's training in palliative care, their knowledge of controlling pain and other symptoms in advanced cancer, the accuracy of GPs' estimates of prognosis, and their assessment of the severity of patients' symptoms in clinical practice. He carried out the work for his MD in the General Practice & Primary Care Research Unit at Cambridge.

̽��ֱ��Sir Lionel Whitby Medal was awarded to Dr Mark Roberts of St John's College for his work 'Characterisation of the immune response to vaccine antigens that exacerbate disease in a murine model of cutaneous leishmaniasis'.

His work on the development of a vaccine for the life-threatening disease Leishmania was carried out at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Dr Mark Rochester of Trinity College received the Sir Walter Langdon-Brown Prize for the dissertation " ̽��ֱ��type 1 insulin-like growth factor receptor in prostate and bladder cancer".

Work for the dissertation was carried out at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Dr Rochester had mastered a great deal of molecular biology and laboratory techniques within a short space of time. He is working at Ipswich at present as an Specialist Registrar in urological surgery

̽��ֱ��presentation was led by the Chairman of the MD Committee, Professor E S Paykel.

Four doctors have received prizes from the ̽��ֱ��’s School of Clinical Medicine in recognition of outstanding work on their MD dissertations.

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Deprivation responsible for 450 breast cancer deaths each year

Doctor Of Medicine Prizes