Cancer Research UK

How Cancer Research UK is adapting to adaptive designs

Clinical trials are central to Cancer Research UK’s purpose of carrying out world-class research to improve our understanding of how to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. The UK leads the world in the percentage of cancer patients entering clinical trials. In 2009, this figure reached an all time high of 16.8% of NHS cancer patients, of which 3⁄4 entered a Cancer Research UK (CR-UK) supported ...

UK Undergraduate Research Program

UK Undergraduate Research Program

Research misconduct in the UK.

Research misconduct can harm patients, distort the evidence base, misdirect research effort, waste funds, and damage public trust in science. Countries all over the developed world are now recognising the need to set up systems to deter, detect, and investigate researchmisconduct.Why does the United Kingdom have no plans to do the same? As Aniket Tavare outlines in the linked feature (doi:10.11...

Discussing randomised clinical trials of cancer therapy: evaluation of a Cancer Research UK training programme.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a training intervention aimed at improving healthcare professionals' communication with cancer patients about randomised clinical trials. DESIGN Before and after evaluation of training programme. SETTING Members of the National Cancer Research Network, Scottish Trials Network, and the Welsh Cancer Trials Network. PARTICIPANTS 101 healthcare professionals (33 clinicia...