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Diagnosing cancer earlier – challenges from a primary care ...


Diagnosing cancer earlier – challenges from a primary care ...

The route to a cancer diagnosis can be complex, from identification of cancers through the National screening programmes, routine and urgent ...

Challenges in early diagnosis of cancer: the fast track - PMC

An early cancer diagnosis is one of the emotionally and intellectually engaging challenges of general practice. Fast-track referral should be the choice if the ...

Approaches to diagnosing cancer earlier in general practice - PMC

Theoretical models of diagnostic delay emphasise the importance of considering patient, health system, and tumour factors along a pathway from ...

Early Detection and Diagnosis of Cancer in the Primary Care Setting

Primary care physicians are at the forefront of screening for major cancers like breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and lung cancer.

Improving early cancer diagnosis in primary care - Merriel - 2020

Primary care plays a pivotal role in the diagnosis of cancer. The vast majority of patients with cancer will develop symptoms prior to diagnosis ...

Early diagnosis of cancer: systems approach to support clinicians in ...

Non-specific symptoms make fast, accurate diagnosis of cancer in primary care challenging. · Initial misattribution of symptoms to other diseases ...

Primary care practitioners' priorities for improving the timeliness of ...

Diagnosing cancer at an early stage increases the likelihood of survival, and more advanced cancers are more difficult to treat successfully ...

Promoting cancer early diagnosis - World Health Organization (WHO)

Early diagnosis of cancer focuses on detecting symptomatic patients as early as possible so they have the best chance for successful treatment.

Prior Primary Care Use and Cancer Mortality Among Patients in the VA

Importance Primary care physicians (PCPs) are significant contributors of early cancer detection, yet few studies have investigated whether ...

The challenges of early diagnosis of cancer in general practice

Research using routine general practice data has helped to inform our understanding of the epidemiology of cancer symptoms in primary care. As a ...

Early diagnosis of cancer: systems approach to support clinicians in ...

In particular, it would be valuable to gain information from primary healthcare providers as well as patients regarding challenges encountered ...

EARLY DIAGNOSIS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR GPs

The National Primary Care Cancer audit 5 and the Cancer Awareness Measure 6 tell us that patients may delay visiting their GP with early ...

Full article: Challenges in early diagnosis of cancer: the fast track

There is extensive primary care evidence of symptoms with a greater incidence in undiagnosed cancer patients than in patients in general [ ...

Can Cancer Prevention Be Better Integrated into Primary Care?

When it comes to cancer prevention, one of the most challenging tasks for primary care clinicians is establishing a baseline for an individual ...

Diagnosing cancer earlier: what progress is being made? - Nature

Fifteen years ago, the Cancer Reform Strategy [1] put earlier diagnosis of cancer at the forefront of plans to improve cancer outcomes and ...

Primary care and cancer: Facing the challenge of early diagnosis ...

Abstract. With ageing populations and an increasing lifetime risk of cancer, primary care will continue to play an increasingly important role ...

Addressing cancer care gaps through improved early ... - The Lancet

Early diagnosis of cancer is associated with improved clinical and patient outcomes. In many countries, primary care practitioners (PCPs) often serve as the ...

Early Diagnosis Initiative | Cancer Research UK

Key progress to date ... Our understanding of cancer diagnosis in primary care has been improved by studies investigating which symptoms patients present with ...

Evaluating diagnostic strategies for early detection of cancer

Diagnosing cancer early is a public and policy priority, with primary care the preferred setting for this to occur [1]. This has led to a desire ...

Exploring why European primary care physicians sometimes do not ...

Background While primary care physicians (PCPs) play a key role in cancer detection, they can find cancer diagnosis challenging, and some patients have ...