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Symptomatic cancer diagnosis in general practice


a critical perspective of current guidelines and risk assessment tools

Symptomatic cancer diagnosis in general practice: a critical perspective of current guidelines and risk assessment tools ... Med J Aust. 2024 May ...

Symptomatic cancer diagnosis in general practice: a critical ...

The apparent strong associations between a single cancer type and specific symptoms seen in secondary care are diluted when applied to the low ...

Symptomatic cancer diagnosis in general practice

Most cancer diagnoses originate from symptomatic presentations to primary care, even when screening programs are available.

Early diagnosis of cancer – the role of general practice - PMC

GPs are faced with the clinical challenge that the predictive value of even serious cancer symptoms is often below 5% [13]. Knowledge of the diagnostic funnel ...

Assessing patients at risk of symptomatic-but-as-yet-undiagnosed ...

Evidence arising from primary care electronic health records can help to assess the risk of symptomatic-but-as-yet-undiagnosed cancer.

Cancer diagnosis in primary care | British Journal of General Practice

Most cancers present to primary care with symptoms, even when there is a screening test for the particular cancer. However, the symptoms of cancer are also ...

Gut feeling for the diagnosis of cancer in general practice - BMJ Open

Although screening tests are effective in diagnosing some cancers such as breast, colorectal and cervical cancers, symptom-based cancer diagnosis is often ...

Colorectal cancer in symptomatic patients: How to improve the ...

The patients present these symptoms usually to primary care, or in some countries to specialist care. In either healthcare setting, the clinician has to ...

The presenting symptom signatures of incident cancer

Information from common blood tests can support the diagnostic process in primary care, but such tests are used in fewer than half of all cancer ...

Full article: Symptoms, signs, and tests: The general practitioner's ...

Most cancers are symptomatic before diagnosis, but the role of lower risk symptoms and of clinical findings potentially available in general practice is unclear ...

Exploring GPs' assessments of their patients' cancer diagnostic ...

'No symptoms' covers patients without symptoms related to cancer that may have consulted the GP for another reason, for example, a yearly control of chronic ...

Cancer suspicion in general practice, urgent referral and time to ...

Many countries have implemented standardised cancer patient pathways (CPPs) to ensure fast diagnosis of patients suspected of having cancer.

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 ...

a scoping review of patients' experiences and needs during the ...

Objectives The objective was to map the experiences and needs of patients presenting with symptoms of suspected cancer in the primary care interval (from ...

Factors affecting patient decisions to undergo testing for cancer ...

Background Patients presenting to their GP are often concerned their symptoms may be due to cancer. However, there is a lack of evidence on the factors that ...

Symptom Signatures and Diagnostic Timeliness in Cancer Patients

This means that the majority of cancer patients continue to be diagnosed following symptomatic presentation, for whom timely diagnosis is associated with better ...

Improving early diagnosis of symptomatic cancer

Time to diagnosis incorporates three elements: patient interval (beginning when bodily change is detected); primary care interval (beginning at ...

The challenges of early diagnosis of cancer in general practice

Most cancers present symptomatically, even those for which there are national screening programs. In Australia, and other countries with strong ...

Patients from general practice with non-specific cancer symptoms

The dark-coloured bars represent the proportion of patients with cancer who reported each symptom. Each patient may present with multiple symptoms. 'No symptoms ...

Symptomatic cancer diagnosis in general practice - ResearchGate

Symptomatic cancer diagnosis in general practice: a critical perspective of current guidelines and risk assessment tools ... To read the full-text of this ...