Cancer

Education for GPs on cancer, covering diagnosis, respiratory cancer; bowel cancer; women's cancer, men's cancer; brain cancer; GI cancer; skin cancer and cancer symptom management and therapies.

COPD

How the five fundamentals of COPD care can help GPs support patients
Air pollution

5 ways GPs can help patients affected by air pollution
Safe disposal of asthma inhalers

How general practice can support safe asthma inhaler disposal

Chest pain - red flag symptoms

Cancer education articles

Early diagnosis: Pancreatic cancer

1 May 2019

Early diagnosis: Bowel cancer

15 Apr 2019

Early diagnosis: Prostate cancer

1 Apr 2019

Early diagnosis: Ovarian cancer

13 Mar 2019

Red flag symptoms: Persistent cough

22 Mar 2018 CPD

Clinical review: Prostate cancer

19 Jul 2017 CPD

Developments in melanoma treatment

24 May 2017 CPD

Identifying oral cancer

11 May 2017 CPD

Endometrial cancer: clinical review

5 Apr 2017 CPD

Spotting and referring oral cancer early

18 Nov 2016 GPconnect

How significant event analysis can support early cancer diagnosis

13 Sep 2016 GPconnect

Tips to help GPs implement NICE cancer referral guidance

6 Sep 2016 GPconnect
Frontal chest X-ray of the lungs of an 83-year-old patient with small cell lung cancer (Photograph: SPL)

Lung cancer: clinical review

23 Aug 2016 CPD

Head and neck tumours: illustrated

9 Mar 2016 CPD

Pancreatic glucagonoma - case study

2 Feb 2016 CPD

Multiple myeloma

11 Jan 2016 CPD

Male breast cancer case study

1 Dec 2015 CPD

Clinical Review: Cervical cancer

9 Mar 2015 CPD

Clinical Review: Multiple myeloma

5 Dec 2014 CPD

Familial breast cancer

24 Oct 2014

Clinical Review: Colorectal cancer

23 Oct 2014 CPD

Clinical Review: Breast cancer

9 Oct 2014 CPD

Screening for lung cancer

28 Mar 2014

Acute myeloid leukaemia: clinical review

28 Feb 2014 CPD

Cancer in the news

Genetic testing in a lab

Genetic testing for ovarian cancer set to expand under NICE recommendations

15 Sep 2023
Doctor prepraring machines for a colonoscopy

Final NICE guidance recommends FIT tests for all patients with suspected colorectal cancer

24 Aug 2023
Elderly patient using a digital pulse oximeter

NICE backs use of virtual wards for patients with acute respiratory infection

18 Aug 2023
Female patient undergoing chemotherapy

Two-week wait cancer target will be replaced from October, NHS England confirms

17 Aug 2023
Patient entering an MRI scanner

Two-week wait cancer target set to be scrapped this week

14 Aug 2023
NHS FIT test

Bowel cancer screening reduces cases by 15%, study finds

9 Aug 2023
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