Incorporating cancer risk information into general practice: a qualitative study using focus groups with health professionals

Julia Hippisley-Cox

doi:10.3399/bjgp17X690161

Usher-Smith et al report a useful study in the potential utility of cancer risk assessment tools in general practice.¹ Readers may be interested to know that the www.qcancer.org tool, which calculates risk of a current but as yet undiagnosed cancer, was integrated into EMISWeb in 2016; the most popular GP computer system, used by over 55% of all GPs in the UK.

Also there is a new tool that predicts 10-year risk of different types of cancer, taking account of family history and lifestyle as well as other risk factors that are readily available.² There is an online calculator for women (http://qcancer.org/10yr/female/) and one for men (http://qcancer.org/10yr/male/).

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Competing interests

Julia Hippisley-Cox is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham and co-director of QResearch^®, a not-for-profit organisation that is a joint partnership between the University of Nottingham and Egton Medical Information Systems (leading commercial supplier of IT for 60% of general practices in the UK). Julia Hippisley-Cox is also a paid director of ClinRisk Ltd, which produces open- and closed-source software to ensure the reliable and updatable implementation of clinical risk algorithms within clinical computer systems to help improve patient care.

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