National Cancer Registration Service (Eastern Office) Monthly Seminars


2013-06-27 15:00: Survival analysis and stage at diagnosis: population based studies using Cancer Registry data (Dr David Greenberg (Eastern Cancer Registration and Information Centre))

2013-07-25 15:00: A demonstration of 'excess death plots' using Cancer Registry data (Peter Treasure (University of Cambridge))

2013-08-22 15:00: Whose fault is it anyway? – Feeding back on Data Quality: who adds the value? (Sally Vernon, NCRS(E))

2013-09-26 15:00: Radiotherapy for benign disease - challenges of estimating risks of malignancy (Neil Burnet (University of Cambridge))

2013-10-24 15:30: Changing presentation of prostate cancer in a UK population – 10 year trends in prostate cancer risk profiles in the East of England (Vincent Gnanapragasam, Departments of Urology and Oncology, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-28 15:00: Misinterpretation of the origins and composition of staging data and its impact on colorectal cancer survival - A demonstration of the vital importance of cancer registration (Michael Eden, National Cancer Registration Service (Eastern))

2014-01-23 15:00: Understanding GP Referral Styles (Steph Peart, Macmillan Cancer Support)

2014-02-27 15:30: The Screening Histories Information Manger (SHIM) Project: linking breast cancer diagnosis and screening information (Emily Steggall, East of England Screening QARC & Cambridgeshire County Council)

2014-06-26 15:00: Factors associated with time to diagnosis and stage at diagnosis for lung and colorectal cancer: results from a prospective cohort study (Dr Fiona Walter (University of Cambridge))

2014-07-24 15:00: Building a national Congenital Anomaly and Rare Disease Registration Service (Christine Harvey, Congenital Anomaly and Rare Disease Register)

2014-09-25 15:00: The Brain Tumour Patient Information Portal - 12 months on (Sarah Stevens, Public Health Consultant, NHS Bedfordshire CCG)

2014-10-23 15:00: What Might a Lung Cancer Screening Programme in the UK Look Like? (Stephen Duffy, Professor of Cancer Screening at Queen Mary College)

2014-11-27 15:00: Reframing Cancer as an Acute Condition (Marie Louise Tørring (Danish Research Centre for Cancer Diagnosis in Primary Care))

2014-12-18 15:00: The National Cancer Registration Service - looking forward, looking back (Jem Rashbass, National Director of Disease Registration, Public Health England)

2015-01-29 13:30: Data pseudonymisation for fuzzy patient matching (Brian Shand (National Cancer Registration Service))

2015-02-26 15:00: Graphs and Charts - A brief introduction to a graph database representation of cancer registry data and the HDI pathway visualisation tool that uses it (Tim Gentry)

2015-04-23 15:00: Some technical aspects of building SHIM (Graham Phillips, NHS Cancer Screening Programmes)

2015-06-11 15:00: Registration of Brain Tumour Morphology:  where we are going now with Glioblastoma and other tumour types" (Professor Peter Collins)

2015-06-26 15:00: Using routine data to estimate disease recurrence (Matt Williams, Imperial College and Charing Cross Hospital)

2015-07-09 15:00: Analysis of trial electronic prescriptions data – preliminary findings (Andrea Clement, National Health England)

2015-08-20 15:00: Recent updates to the WHO classification of tumours (Brian Rous, National Cancer Registration Service)

2015-09-03 15:00: Non-melanoma skin cancer:- estimating the size of the elephant in the NHS room (Peter Goon, Specialty Registrar in Dermatology, Department of Dermatology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital)

2015-11-18 15:00: Cancer Genetics and Cancer Registration (Fiona McRonald, Public Health England)

2015-12-03 15:00: Alternative Database Technologies - and what they can offer to Cancer Registration (Paul Eves, Public Health England)

2016-01-28 15:00: Encore by Numbers: importing very large data volumes from a variety of messy sources (Joshua Pencheon, National Cancer Registration Service (Eastern))

2016-09-22 15:00: The role of chance in organisational variation in stage at diagnosis (Matthew Barclay (University of Cambridge))

2016-10-27 15:00: Linking national datasets at patient level: Triangulating cancer treatment data sources for the most commonly diagnosed adult brain tumour (Sarah Miller)

2016-12-01 15:00: What predicts general practice variation in use of urgent referrals for suspected cancer and endoscopies? Associations with patient experience, clinical quality and practice characteristics (Silvia Mendonca)

2017-01-24 15:00: COSD (The Cancer Outcomes and Services Dataset)- Understanding the complexity of such a large dataset (Andy Murphy (NCRAS))

2017-03-13 15:00: The General Relativity Theory of Cancer Epidemiology (Marie Louise Tørring, Aarhus University)

2017-06-19 15:00: Non-melanoma skin cancers: the tip of the iceberg (Zoe Venables (Public Health England))

2017-09-28 15:00: Patients as Partners in Cancer Research (Richard Stephens (NCRI))