Background Changing population-level exposure to modifiable risk factors is a key driver of
changing cancer incidence. Understanding these changes is therefore vital when prioritising …

Background Human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation with a bivalent vaccine (Cervarix)
was introduced in England, UK, in Sept 1, 2008: routine vaccination was offered to girls aged …

Advance Access Publication Date: 23 April 2019 Data Resource Profile records, 3 hospital
Patient Administration Systems, and operational standards such as cancer waiting times. 4 …

Many patients with cancer are diagnosed through an emergency presentation, which is
associated with inferior clinical and patient-reported outcomes compared with those of patients …

Background Early diagnosis interventions such as symptom awareness campaigns increasingly
form part of global cancer control strategies. However, these strategies will have little …

Background: Although overall sociodemographic and cancer site variation in the risk of cancer
diagnosis through emergency presentation has been previously described, relatively little …

Background Emergency diagnosis of cancer is common and aetiologically complex. The
proportion of emergency presenters who have consulted previously with relevant symptoms is …

Background People living in more deprived areas of high-income countries have lower
cancer survival than those in less deprived areas. However, associations between individual-…

The Be Clear on Cancer (BCoC) campaigns have run in England since 2010. They aim to
raise awareness of possible cancer symptoms, encouraging people to consult a general …

Objectives Most research on health inequalities uses aggregated deprivation scores assigned
to the small area where the patient lives; however, the concordance between aggregate …