Research Round-up

Today we are speaking with Dr Larry Myers, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cancer Council Queensland. Larry and his team recently published a study in the journal Psycho-Oncology about Mail-out bowel cancer screening: Identifying the behavioural stumbling blocks.

Today we are speaking with Dr Rebecca Venchiarutti, a Head and Neck Research Fellow at Chris O'Brien Lifehouse and an academic at the University of Sydney.

Rebecca has published a new survey of general practitioners in the Australian Journal of Rural Health about the Geographic variation in referral practices for patients with suspected head and neck cancer.

Kristi Milley speaks with Professor Larissa Nekhlyudov and Professor Ray Chan.

Larissa Nekhlyudov is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a primary care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Clinical Director of Internal Medicine for Cancer Survivors at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in the USA.

Ray Chan is the Director of the Caring Futures Institute and Professor of Cancer Nursing at Flinders University in South Australia. Together they have published a new overview of systematic reviews published in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship about the Effectiveness and Implementation of Models of Survivorship Care.

Kristi Milley speaks with Dr Fiona Crawford-Williams from Flinders University.

Fiona is a research fellow in the Cancer Survivorship program within the Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre at the Queensland University of Technology.

Fiona currently works in close collaboration with Cancer Council Queensland, conducting research investigating cancer care delivery in regional and rural Queensland.

Today we are speaking about her new paper Information needs and preferences among rural cancer survivors in Queensland, Australia: a qualitative examination the Australian and New Zealand journal of public health.

Kristi Milley speaks with Dr Daniel Jones an Academic Clinical Lecturer from the University of Leeds. Dan is an academic GP and his PhD looked at the diagnosis of lung and colorectal cancer in primary care.

In this episode, we cover his systematic review recently published in the British Journal of General Practice titled Factors affecting the decision to investigate older adults with potential cancer symptoms.

Look out …it’s a HOST SWAP! member of the PC4 Community Advisory Group; Louise Bailey took reign of the microphone in this episode of Research Round-up to interview our own PC4 National Manager Dr Kristi Milley and Ms Sophie Chima from PC4 about their new paper published in the journal Health Expectations, Long-term consumer involvement in cancer research: Working towards partnership.

Show notes are located here: http://pc4tg.com.au/research-round-up-july-2021-with-special-host-louise-bailey-and-guests-dr-kristi-milley-sophie-chima

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Professor Ross Lawrenson and Dr Tania Blackmore from the University of Waikato. Ross is an academic GP and Professor of Population Health and Medical Research. Tania is a Senior Research Fellow with a background in Psychology. Together, they have published a study in BMC Family Practice titled How do colorectal cancer patients rate their GP: a mixed methods study.

Show notes are located here: http://pc4tg.com.au/research-round-up-june-2021-with-prof-ross-lawrenson-dr-tania-blackmore

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Andi Agbejule a PhD student in the Cancer Survivorship research group at the University of Queensland.

Andi has recently published a systematic review titled Outcomes of cancer survivorship education and training for primary care providers in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship.

The paper identified published literature regarding cancer survivorship education programs for primary care providers and assessed their outcomes.

As a result of the review seven key recommendations were proposed for developing and evaluating survivorship education programs which you can hear about in the episode. One of Andi’s key points was that future educational programs need to be more tailored to primary care practice.

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Prof Marjan van den Akker from Goethe University in Germany and Dr Laura Deckx from The University of Queensland.

Together Marjan and Laura have recently published ‘Psychosocial care for cancer survivors: A systematic literature review on the role of general practitioners.’ in the journal Psycho-Oncology.

They highlight that with the exception of survivor's with a fear of recurrence, the GP is well placed to provide psychological care for cancer survivors.  However they also found there is sometimes a mismatch with the care that the patient is after and the care the GP thinks the patient seeks.  They point out that the most important common dominator was that care was multi-disciplinary – with the GP being part of a bigger team.  Prof van den Akker made the important statement that their study “illustrates the importance of the transition between secondary and primary care – which does not always happen smoothy.”

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Dr Natalia Calanzani from Cambridge University in the UK. Natalia is a Research Associate and a member of the CanTest Collaborative. 

Natalia recently published ‘Identifying novel biomarkers ready for evaluation in low-prevalence populations for the early detection of upper gastrointestinal cancers: a systematic review’ in Advances in Therapy.

Natalia highlights that detecting upper gastrointestinal (GI) cancers in primary care is a challenge because cancer symptoms are common, often non-specific, and most patients who present with these symptoms will not have cancer. 

She wants listeners to understand that while there is a lot of evidence on biomarkers being evaluated for early detection, research is still at a really early stage.  Natalia goes on to explain that some biomarkers identified in this review will be helpful for primary care but we need more evidence so we can recommend further evaluations. However this review is still really important because it shows the landscape of work being done.

Find full show notes here:

http://pc4tg.com.au/research-round-up-march-2021-with-dr-natalia-calanzani/