Cancer Research UK

In 2013 CRUK and NCRAS established a partnership to conduct analysis that both organisations see as a priority. This includes but is not limited to:

• understanding the cancer pathway better and timeliness of patients receiving treatment  
• increasing our understanding of survival in cancer patients  
• analysing cancer outcomes from diagnosis through treatment
• investigating inequalities across the cancer pathway 

The partnership has contributed to many outputs over the years, with some highlighted and linked to below. 

Latest publication - The number and proportion of cancer patients receiving drugs Cancer Research UK helped to develop

The partnership team have analysed the systemic anti-cancer therapies (SACT) data to investigate how many cancer patients were treated with a cancer drug that CRUK helped to develop. We looked at this from 2015 to 2023 in England. We also looked at how the number varied across different cancer types. 

Read the full report on the CRUK website

Previous publications

• 1- and 5- year conditional survival estimates for patients diagnosed in England between 2015 and 2019
• A comparative analysis of the National Cancer Diagnosis Audit for England 2018 vs 2014
• 10 year survival by stage for the East of England*
• Oral Etoposide as a single agent in childhood and young adult cancer
• Calculating the Secondary Diagnostic Interval for patients in England
• Relationship between ethnicity and stage at diagnosis in England
• Estimating surgery, radiotherapy and systemic anti-cancer therapy treatment costs for cancer patients by stage at diagnosis
• Cross sectional study using primary care and cancer registration data to investigate patients with cancer presenting with non-specific symptoms
• Which cancer patients experience long waits to treatment, and why?
• Concordance to colon and non-small cell lung cancer NICE treatment guideline recommendations
• Concordance to colon cancer NICE treatment guideline recommendations
• Variation in performance on the Faster Diagnosis Pathway

*Please note this is a historic project so there may be some differences with the more recent methodologies used by NDRS

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