2004 Wed. 29 Sept
Session 1: Information agenda
Chair: Professor Mike Richards, National Cancer Director
09.45: Cancer information for public health and clinical governance
Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer
10.15: The NHS National Programme for Information Technology - the potential for the Secondary Uses Service
Mr Jeremy Thorp, Technical Director, NHS Information Authority
10.45: Cancer epidemiology and prevention: opportunities, priorities and barriers to progress
Professor Julian Peto, London School of Hygiene & Tropical
Medicine and Institute of Cancer Research
Session 2
Morning:
Chair: Professor David Forman, Director of Information and Research, Northern & Yorkshire Cancer Registry and Information Service
11.45: Natural history of prostate cancer - the Transatlantic Study
Professor Jack Cuzick, Department of Epidemiology, Mathematics and Statistics, The Wolfson Institute of Preventative Medicine
12.15: Cancer information and health service regulation
Dr Jenifer Smith, Consultant in Public Health/ Deputy Director of Public Health, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Strategic Health Authority and Specialist Advisor to the Healthcare Commission
Session 3: Public health
Chair: Dr Monica Roche, Medical Director of the Oxford Cancer Intelligence Unit and the South-East (West) Breast Screening Quality Assurance Reference Centre
13.45: Developing a patient information leaflet about the national cancer registration scheme
Dr Monica Roche, Medical Director, Oxford Cancer Intelligence Unit
14.00: New general practice contract. Opportunities for cancer registration
Dr Anna Gavin, Director, Northern Ireland Cancer Registry
14.15: Prognostic practice for survival in poor and affluent areas (NV42)
Dr Jasmina Stefoski Mikeljevic, Research Fellow, Northern & Yorkshire Cancer Registry and Information Service
14.30: Developing a protocol to handle cancer “cluster”
enquiries
Ms Christine Harling, Head of Information, South West Cancer Intelligence Service
14.45: How is place of death for cancer patients changing and what affects it? An analysis of registry data for South East England 1985-2001
Dr Elizabeth Davies, Senior Lecturer in Cancer
Registration, Thames Cancer Registry
Session 4: Cancer services research
Chair: Dr David Brewster, Director, Scottish Cancer Registry
15.30: Extending quality assurance to all breast cancers: The BCCOM project
Dr Gill Lawrence, Director, West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit
15.45: Assessing the effect of clinical guidelines on cancer services for colorectal cancer
Dr Lou Gonsalves, Associate Director of Research and Information, West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit
16.00: Management of vulval cancer services in South West England
Dr Jenny Weeks, Audit Project Manager, South West Cancer Intelligence Service
16.15: Waiting times for radiotherapy: variation over time and between cancer networks in South East England
Mr David Robinson, Statistician, Thames Cancer Registry
2004 Thurs. 30 Sept
Session 5: Cancer registration and informatics
Chair: Mr Chris Carrigan, Cancer Registration Coordinator, Cancer Action Team
09.30: How useful is the Cancer Waiting Times (CWT) dataset for the purposes of cancer registration?
Mrs Caroline Brook, Information Services Manager, Northern & Yorkshire Cancer Registry and Information Service
09.45: Evaluation of electronic radiotherapy data for quality check on cancer registry data
Mr Colin Fox, IT Manager, Northern Ireland Cancer Registry
10.00: Development of cancer information workforce education and training strategy
Mrs Karin Lowson, Director, NHS Consulting, York Health Economics Consortium
10.30: Collecting the national cancer registration data set (NCRDS): A report on the NHSIA Pilot
Mr Nigel Brook, General Manager, Thames Cancer Registry
Session 6: Epidemiology
Chair: Dr Mike Quinn, Director, National Cancer Intelligence Centre, Office for National Statistics
11.15: Childhood leukaemia in Great Britain : trends in incidence, survival and ‘cure'
Ms Anjali Shah, PhD Student, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
11.30: Bladder cancer: later stage and worse survival in women from deprived areas
Dr Tony Moran, Director, North Western Cancer Registry
11.45: Obesity and smoking in patients with Barrett's oesophagus or adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus or gastro-oesophageal junction. Preliminary results from the Finbar study
Miss Lesley Anderson, Research Assistant, Northern Ireland Cancer Registry
12.00: A revolution in cancer care? Recent cancer mortality trends and the 12% target
Professor Henrik Møller, Director, Thames Cancer Registry
12.15: Is the rate of biological ageing, as measured by age at diagnosis of cancer, socio-economically patterned? An analysis of routinely collected data from a cancer registry
Dr Jean Adams, BUPA/Faculty of Public Health Medicine Research Fellow,University of Newcastle upon Tyne
12.30: Poster Prizes - Dr Mike Quinn
Session 7: International collaborations
Chair: Professor Henrik Møller, Director, Thames Cancer Registry
13.45: Trends in cervical squamous cell carcinoma incidence in 13 European countries: changing risk and the effects of screening
Mr Freddie Bray, Technical Officer, International Agency for Research on Cancer
14.00: Comparison of survival following colorectal cancer in England, Scotland and the Nordic countries using period survival analysis
Ms Gerda Engholm, Senior Statistician, Danish Cancer Society
14.15: Cancer trends and the impact of medical interventions: data from the Italian Network of Cancer Registries (AIRT)
Dr Eugenio Paci, Director, Tuscany Region Cancer Registry
14.30: Relative survival for twenty common adult cancers in the UK and the Republic of Ireland
Dr Bernard Rachet, Clinical Lecturer, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
14.45: The EUROCADET study
Dr Jan Willem Coebergh, Director, Eindhoven Cancer Registry
