Cancer diagnosis in Scottish primary care: Results from the National Cancer Diagnosis Audit

Diagnosing cancer in primary care: results from the National Cancer Diagnosis Audit

BACKGROUND Continual improvements in diagnostic processes are needed to minimise the proportion of patients with cancer who experience diagnostic delays. Clinical audit is a means of achieving this. AIM To characterise key aspects of the diagnostic process for cancer and to generate baseline measures for future re-audit. DESIGN AND SETTING Clinical audit of cancer diagnosis in general pract...

Cancer diagnosis in primary care.

Around a quarter of those in the developed world die of cancer. Most cancers present to primary care with symptoms, even when there is a screening test for the particular cancer. However, the symptoms of cancer are also symptoms of benign disease, and the GP has to judge whether cancer is a possible explanation. Very little research examined this process until relatively recently. This review p...

Delayed Diagnosis of Cancer in Primary Care

Diagnosis of ovarian cancer in primary care.

Genetic diagnosis of cancer: diagnosis of mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 in breast cancer

During the last two decays the tremendous success in molecular biology and genetics which has surprised the entire world. So that today the sequencing of whole genome has been possible for each human individual to estimate its being affected with cardiovascular and cancer diseases. However, these achievements have some important limitations and deep ethical issues which might be ignored. Geneti...