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Join our team! We are currently looking for a Patient Representative to support our important research to improve the care and management of patients with bowel cancer in the Yorkshire region. The full details of the opportunity are below. If you are interested or would like further information please email Emily Connearn e.connearn@leeds.ac.uk. Yorkshire Cancer...
We are very excited to report that we have now recruited over 1500 patients to the PROMS and Tissue collection study being run as part of the Yorkshire Cancer Research Bowel Cancer Improvement Programme. Our thanks and congratulations to the research teams in our study sites.
We have a new paper in the journal Age and Aging! Entitled, "A comparison of frailty measures in population-based data for patients with colorectal cancer", the paper compares different ways of assessing frailty in a national bowel cancer cohort. This matters because outcomes from bowel cancer vary by age and it is not clear how much...
Register now to join us at our Annual Yorkshire Cancer Research Bowel Cancer Improvement Programme event 2024. This event is designed to give colleagues across the region an update on the progress, outputs and achievements of the YCRBIP over the past twelve months as well some of the plans for the future. Our workstream leads...
Join our team! We are currently looking for a Deputy Patient Representative to support our important research to improve the care and management of patients with bowel cancer in the Yorkshire region. The full details of the opportunity are below. If you are interested or would like further information please email Emily Connearn e.connearn@leeds.ac.uk. Yorkshire...
Colleagues in our Pathology workstream, along with other colleagues at the University of Leeds have teamed up with the Thackray Medical Museum to create a person-centred pathology exhibit called "Behind the Microscope". This is focussed on sharing with the public the role of pathologists, who they are and what they do - both in research...
On Saturday 13th May, the Yorkshire Cancer Research Bowel Cancer Improvement Programme exhibited at the University of Leeds Be Curious event. Be Curious is the University of Leeds annual research open event which aims to showcase how research at Leeds is making a world of difference to people’s lives. It is a fun and free event...
Our PI Phil Quirke and Patient Representative Kate Bartholomew had the opportunity to meet Skipton and Ripon MP Julian Smith when he visited Yorkshire Cancer Research’s new Skipton Shop earlier this month. Julian was interested in meeting researchers and patients who have benefited from funding from the charity. You can read more about the visit...
Throughout the month of May, five members of our team took part in Step Out For Yorkshire, a Yorkshire Cancer Research fundraising campaign encouraging people to step outdoors and get moving to raise money for the charity. In total, our team walked an amazing 568 miles and raised £518 for Yorkshire Cancer Research.
We were very pleased to be invited to the launch of the Yorkshire Cancer Research Yorkshire Stars campaign at the Thackray Medical Museum in December. The Yorkshire Stars campaign is showing support for people affected by cancer. Here is our team with our stars, dedicated to people we know affected by cancer.