In response to a request from the UK children’s cancer community for help in benchmarking UK activity against work elsewhere, NCRI has undertaken an analysis of the ICRP database to look at the nature and volume of childhood cancer research funded by NCRI Partners in the UK compared with other countries participating in ICRP data‐sharing. …
Radiotherapy physics research in the UK: challenges and proposed solutions
'In 2011, the Clinical and Translational Radiotherapy Research Working Group (CTRad) of the National Cancer Research Institute brought together UK radiotherapy physics leaders for a think tank meeting. Following a format that CTRad had previously and successfully used with clinical oncologists, 23 departments were asked to complete a pre-meeting evaluation of their radiotherapy physics research infrastructure and the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats within their own centre.…
CTRad workshop on outcome data collection for proton beam therapy
'A meeting was held at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust on 8 July 2013 to discuss outcome data collection for patients treated with proton beam therapy (PBT).…
Impact of the NCRI Supportive and Palliative Care initiative
'A review of the development of research capacity in supportive and palliative care and of the benefits of the initiative to patients, the public and the NHS.…
Cancer research spend in the UK 2002-2011
'An overview of the research funded by NCRI Partners…
Cancer research spend in the UK 2002-2011_data package
'Accompanying data package (xlsx)…
Research into less common cancers
'An analysis of research spend by Cancer52 members and National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Partners in 2012…
NCRI Clinical Studies Groups: A prospectus
'A summary of the important work of the NCRI Clinical Studies Groups (CSGs) and their vision for future work…
NCRI operating report 2012/13
'Summary of NCRI activities during 2012/13…
CTRad clinical trials workshop
'This is an educational workshop, the objectives were to discuss the components of a good clinical trial proposal, use specific clinical trial proposals to illustrate and discuss key issues and understand the roles and responsibilities of the Chief Investigator.…
Methodological Considerations in the Evaluation of Radiotherapy Technologies
'Radiotherapy is a high technology discipline and this is increasingly the case in the modern era. In keeping with other technology-dependent treatment modalities, radiotherapy is constantly evolving, often by small but discernible increments. It is important to adopt developments that will improve patient outcomes, as over 90,000 patients receive radiotherapy with curative intent in the UK each year.…
CTRad proton beam therapy research meeting
'There was overall consensus of the value and desire to progress the research agenda, both as a support to the PBT Treating Centres and to develop the area for the research community.
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