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- Title
Does cancer research focus on areas of importance to patients?
- Authors
Sing Yu Moorcraft; Sangha, Amrit; Peckitt, Clare; Sanchez, Rodrigo; Lee, Martin; Pattison, Natalie; Wiseman, Theresa
- Abstract
The majority of research ideas are proposed by clinicians or scientists and little is currently known about which areas of research patients feel are important. We performed a 4 week pilot patient survey at the Royal Marsden (a specialist cancer centre) to investigate patients' views on priorities for cancer research. A total of 780 patients completed the survey and the top research priorities were identified as: detection and prevention of cancer, scientific understanding, curative treatment and personalised treatment. The top research priorities were remarkably consistent across age, gender and a variety of tumour types. We believe that patients' views should be considered alongside those of clinicians and researchers when devising research proposals and strategies.
- Subjects
CANCER research; CANCER patients; EARLY detection of cancer
- Publication
Ecancermedicalscience, 2016, Vol 10, Issue 608-629, p1
- ISSN
1754-6605
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3332/ecancer.2016.ed51