Wed 25th May

Refreshments 11:30-12:00; Seminar 12:00-1:00pm; Questions until 1:30pm

This event will be held in JS07, Smeall building, St Luke's Campus, with hybrid virtual access via MS Teams. Online joining instructions will be sent with the confirmation of registration email (SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS EMAIL TO SEE THE LINK)

Professor Richard Neal, Professor of Primary Care, UoE

"Innovations and interventions for detecting cancer earlier"

About: In this seminar Richard will discuss how cancer outcomes may be improved by step-changes in how we may detect cancer earlier. Specifically he will discuss three very different but complementary approaches that he is working on with international academic partners and industry. These are:

• The NHS-Galleri trial, evaluating the impact of a novel Multi-Cancer Early Detection Test, in an asymptomatic screening population (and aiming to complete recruitment and randomisation of 140,000 participants within the first year of operation)
• The development, validation, and service evaluation of the PinPoint Test – a machine learning algorithm able to stratify risk of cancer based upon routine blood tests for patients being referred down Urgent Suspected Cancer pathways
• The ThinkCancer Trial – A cluster RCT of a psycho-educational intervention that has been developed to get clinicians to think about the possibility of cancer more, and more often with the intention of better targeting of investigations and referrals

Bio: Richard moved to Exeter in 2021, after working at the University of Leeds five years as Professor of Primary Care Oncology. He continues to collaborate with Leeds on a number of projects and holds a Visiting Professorship there. Prior to this he was Professor of Primary Care Medicine at Bangor University. He has 20 years of experience of research at the interface of cancer and general practice. He is a GP, and will be working at an Exeter practice for one day a week.

We look forward to welcoming you,

Chloe and the APEx research group

Organiser: Chloe Thomas, APEx

Contact: c.thomas6@exeter.ac.uk