This category covers research into all types of cancers (includes leukaemia).
The following summaries in this clinical area have been accepted since the start of 2013. Click on the grant reference number to open.
- Ms Catherine Thomson et al –Impact of Post-Operative wound complications on Long-Term Survival from breast cancer: population based retrospective cohort study in Scotland (CZH/4/1073)
- Prof AS Anderson et al – TreatWELL – a feasibility study to assess the delivery of a lifestyle intervention for colorectal cancer patients undergoing potentially curative treatment (CZH/4/939)
- Dr Sara Macdonald et al – Improving Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer: the role of Candidacy (CZH/4/890)
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Mary Wells et al – Cancer diagnosis as an opportunity for increasing uptake of smoking cessation services among families: an exploratory study of patients, family members and health professionals (CZH/4/807)
- Prof R J Steele et al – Geographical differences in the uptake of colorectal and breast cancer screening in Scotland (CZH/4/926)
- Dr N Gray (Postdoctoral Fellow) et al – Symptoms of recurrent disease in patients following potentially curative treatment for colorectal cancer (PDF/10/08)
- Professor Holyoake et al – Investigation of the role of FOXO transcription factors in tyrosine-kinase inhibitor-induced G1 arrest as potential targets in Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia stem cell eradication (CZB.4.690)
- Professor Sarah Wild et al – Validating existing and developing new measures of comorbidity to predict mortality using Scottish routine datasets (CZH/4/922)
- Doctor Christina Helsey et al – Identifying novel targets for eradication of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in the central nervous system (ETM/374 FOR)
- Doctor Irene Hunter and Doctor Iain J McEwan – Antiandrogen therapy in prostrate cancer: impact of auto-regulation of the androgen receptor gene and receptor point mutations. (ETM/382 FOR)
- Doctor Natividad Gome-Roman and Professor Anthony Chalmers – Mitochondrial poisoning as a novel strategy to overcome radiation resistance of glioblastoma . (ETM/405 FOR)
- Professor Charlie Gourley et al – Characterisation of the role of ERCC1 induction following platinum-based chemotherapy in ovarian cancer resistance in vivo and investigation of therapeutic strategies to inhibit this process. (ETM/92 FOR)
- Professor R Petty et al – Detection in hypoxic regions in Oesophagogastric Carcinomas with 18F-fluoroazomycin-arabinofuranoside (FAZA) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging. (ETM/302 FOR)
- Moug et al – A pilot study of the feasibility and patient-related outcomes of performing a walking intervention in patients undergoing treatment for rectal cancer -(The REx Trial). (CZH/4/986)