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Cancer Research UK supports GPs to deliver best practice

Keep up to date with the latest statistics, evidence and information on diagnosing, treating and preventing cancer.

You can also find professional tools, early diagnosis campaigns and resources that can support your work.

Comprehensive resources to support your work

  • We help medical professionals to keep up to date with the latest developments in prevention and early diagnosis.

  • We help journalists, policy researchers and health commissioners to understand complex cancer statistics and find evidence-based information.

  • We give people the skills and confidence to talk about cancer.

  • We provide medical professionals with reliable and easy to understand information for their patients

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Awareness and Prevention

Help raise awareness of cancer and encourage prevention in the community.

This photo shows a GP talking to a patient about a symptomatic Faecal Imunochemical Test (FIT) kit from England.

Screening

Evidence for interventions which increase uptake and resources to help you carry out these activities.

This photo shows a mammographer with a patient, wearing a hospital gown, before a mammogram.

Diagnosis

Tools and information to support health professionals in the the early diagnosis of cancer.

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Treatment and other post-diagnosis issues

Information on types of cancer treatment, clinical trials, SACT consent forms and more.

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Data and Statistics

Up-to-date data and analysis to help understand cancer and contribute to strategic decision making.

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Learning and support

Courses, tools and partnership programmes to improve prevention, diagnosis and outcomes.

Leadership Programme and Partnerships

Our joint work helps us explore different approaches to cancer diagnosis and improve outcomes for patients.

Learn about our GP leadership programme

Our reports and publications

Explore a selection of reports and publications from the experts at Cancer Research UK, and through various collaborations.

Topics include: summaries of the state of cancer, projections, risk factors and preventability, symptom awareness investigation, intervention success, barrier identification, treatments received and more.

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Newsletters

Newsletters targeted at health professionals which provide intelligence to support evidence-based decision making and updates on our activities, as well as our bespoke GP newsletter which includes best practice guidance, practical tools and expert resources.

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