Research Round-up

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Linda Denehy who is the Head of School and Professor of Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne, School of Health Sciences as well as a Professor of Allied Health Research at Peter McCallum Cancer Centre. Linda recently published a paper in the Australian Journal of General Practice entitled “'Probably better than any medication we can give you’: General practitioner...

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Sibel Saya who is a Genetic Counsellor and PhD student at University of Melbourne as well as a past host of PC4’s other podcast Cheers with Peers.  Sibel recently published a paper in Public Health Genomics entitled “A Genomic Test for Colorectal Cancer Risk: Is This Acceptable and Feasible in Primary Care?”  Genomic tests can predict risk and tailor screening recommendat...

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Associate Professor Julia Brotherton who is Medical Director of the Victorian Cancer Service’s Population Health and a member of the WHO Director General's Expert Advisory Group on Cervical Cancer Elimination. Julia is the senior author on a new publication in Plos One titled - 'Implementation of Australia’s renewed cervical screening program: Preparedness of general prac...

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Alison Beauchamp, Senior Lecturer in the School of Rural health at Monash University in Victoria about the recently published paper, ‘The impact of translated reminder letters and phone calls on mammography screening booking rates: Two randomised controlled trials’.

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Ruth Swann, Senior Cancer Information Analyst at Cancer Research UK and Public Health England about the recently published paper, ‘The frequency, nature and impact of GP-assessed avoidable delays in a population-based cohort of cancer patients’. Ruth talks about the English National Cancer Diagnosis Audit (NCDA) which looks at primary and secondary care data relating to p...

Dr Kristi Milley speaks to Professor Vicki White, Professor of Psycho-Oncology at the Faculty of Health at Deakin University. She was lead author on ‘The pathway to diagnosis and treatment for surgically managed lung cancer patients’ published recently in the journal Family Practice. The study scrutinised looked at pathways for patients with operable lung cancer to identify factors contributing to...

Professor Jon Emery is our guest host this month and he talks to Ellena Badrick, a Research Associate at the Division of Cancer Sciences at the University of Manchester. She is the first author of the recently published “Top ten research priorities for detecting cancer early” in The Lancet. In this episode, Ellena talks about the process of gathering key research questions around the early detecti...

Dr Milley talks to Dr Sam Merriel, a GP with research interests including cancer prevention, early diagnosis and preventive medicine in primary care. Dr Merriel recently co-authored a Systematic Review titled “Comparison of Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Targeted Biopsy With Systematic Biopsy Alone for the Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis”. Show no...

Dr Milley talks to Dr Karolina Lisy, Senior Research Fellow in the Survivorship and Living Well After Cancer group at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. She recently published a systematic review in Asia‐Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology titled “Identifying the most prevalent unmet needs of cancer survivors in Australia: A systematic review”. The review identified the most common unmet needs of...

Dr Milley talks to Professor Michael Jefford - a Consultant Medical Oncologist and Director of the Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre, at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Professor Jefford recently co-authored “Tools to facilitate communication during physician‐patient consultations in cancer care: An overview of systematic reviews”. The Systematic Review considered effective methods of communica...

Paige Druce is the guest host for this episode. She talks to Kate Gunn and Bogda Koczwara about their article Differences in the health, mental health and health-promoting behaviours of rural versus urban cancer survivors in Australia. The article looks at people affected by cancer who live in rural Australia and their experiences of survival compared to their urban equivalents. Show notes are ava...

In our third and final Research Roundup recorded on location at the 2019 Cancer and Primary Care Research International Network (Ca-PRI) Conference held in Toronto in May, Dr Kristi Milley chats to Dr. Garth Funston. Garth is a General Practitioner, and Clinical Research Fellow with the CanTest Collaborative. In this episode, Garth discusses his current PhD research on the topic of evaluating test...

This is the second episode in the series that was recorded during the 2019 Cancer and Primary Care Research International Network (Ca-PRI) Conference held in Toronto in May. Dr Kristi Milley sits down with Dr. Robin Urquhart, an Assistant Professor and Ramia Scientist within the Department of Surgery at Dalhousie University, Canada. At the conference, Robin gave a presentation entitled ‘Primary ca...

This is the first episode in the series that was recorded during the 2019 Cancer and Primary Care Research International Network (Ca-PRI) Conference held in Toronto in May. Dr Kristi Milley chats with Dr. Saskia Duijts, the Program Leader of Oncology in Primary Care at The University Medical Centre Groningen in The Netherlands. During the conference, Saskia gave a presentation entitled ‘The relati...

Season Two sees Dr Kristi Milley talk to Professor Geoff Mitchell, Professor of General Practice, Primary Care Clinical Unit Faculty of Medicine at The University of Queensland. Professor Mitchell is a GP and has recently published an article on Journal of Palliative Medicine – Predicting those who are at risk of dying within 6-12 months in primary care: a retrospective case-control general practi...

Dr Kristi Milley and Sophie Chima talk to Kate Broun, Manager - Screening, Early Detection and Immunisation at Cancer Council Victoria about the recent media campaign that was launched in March 2019 and the recent publication Impact of a mass media campaign on participation rates in a National Bowel Cancer Screening Program. This study aimed to compare bowel cancer screening rates prior to, during...

It's our 10th anniversary! So we've decided to release a Bonus Research Round-up to celebrate our 10th anniversary. Dr. Kristi Milley and Sophie Chima talk to Professor Jon Emery, Herman Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research at the University of Melbourne and Director of PC4 and Emily Habgood about the recent publication ‘The Chest Australia Trial: a randomised controlled trial of an intervent...

The Research Round-up team interview Dr Pauline Williams, Academic Fellow at the Centre of Academic Primary Care at the University of Aberdeen and General Practitioner. In this episode we discuss Dr Williams recently published Patient and primary care delays in the diagnostic pathway of gynaecological cancers: a systematic review of influencing factors in the British Journal of General Practice. D...

The Research Round-up team interview Associate Professor of General Practice, Joel Rhee from the University of Wollongong. Joel Rhee is Chair of Specific Interest Network of Cancer and Palliative Care of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and PC4’s Clinical Oncology Society of Australia representative. In this episode we discuss Associate Professor Rhee’s recent BMJ publ...

Professor Jon Emery talks with Professor Willie Hamilton, co-chair of CanTest and a GP and lead of the DISCOVERY group in Exeter, Willie is also clinical lead for the 2015 NICE guidance, as well as a member of the Department of Health’s Policy Research Unit for cancer awareness, screening and early diagnosis. Both are part of CanTest – a five year programme of funding from Cancer Research UK, wher...

Professor Jon Emery sits down with Professor Yoryos Lyratzopoulos, Professor of Cancer Healthcare Epidemiology and lead of the Epidemiology of Cancer Healthcare and Outcomes (ECHO) group. Professor Lyratzopoulos discusses his recently published article looking at the relationship between the diagnosis of cancer through emergency presentations and sociodemographic inequalities. Jon and Yoryos discu...

• Dr. Kristi Milley and Sophie Chima talk to Professor Mark Nelson about the results of his recently published ASPREE trials, (ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly). The guidelines around daily aspirin for prevention of colorectal cancer have recently been updated in Australia, however aspirin still does not feature in UK guidelines. Recent studies have implied aspirin may aid prevention or d...

Dr. Kristi Milley and Sophie Chima talk to Professor Jon Emery about two recent publications. The first publication, The Aarhus statement on cancer diagnostic research: turning recommendations into new survey instruments, is a protocol defining the improvement of an intervention to advance diagnosis through primary care. The second publication directed researchers occupied in early cancer diagnosi...

Bowel Cancer affects over 20,000 Australians each year and is one of the top three most common cancers in Australia. In this episode, Dr Kristi Milley and Dr Jennifer Walker discuss recently published articles regarding colorectal cancer. Australia has a national bowel cancer screening program and they discuss the possibility of a primary care approach in the USA of a supplemental intervention to...