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SUMMARY:Index of Suspicion: Predicting Cancer from Prescriptions - Josephi
 ne French\, Health Data Insight
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CONTACT:Dr Vivien Gruar
DESCRIPTION:Health Data Insight has worked with Public Health England and 
 the NHS Business Services Authority to create a database of England’s pr
 imary care prescriptions data. This has been linked to the Cancer Analysis
  System (CAS)\, a national database of all cancer diagnoses and treatment 
 in England. The aim of the Index of Suspicion project is to use machine le
 arning to identify patterns in medication prescribed prior to the diagnosi
 s of cancer to derive an “index of suspicion” that will predict when a
  patient is at increased likelihood of developing subsequent cancer.\n\nTh
 e exact direction of the internship is dependent on the intern’s interes
 ts\, but possible areas include:\nThe development and/or refinement of mac
 hine learning or statistical methods.\nThe development and implementation 
 of statistical testing of the validity of conclusions.\nThe assessment\, d
 issemination\, and/or implementation of conclusions. How significant are t
 he results? What are the best ways to communicate this\, and what are the 
 possible impacts on patients? \nHuman interpretability of models.\n\n
LOCATION:MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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