Where are the inequalities in colorectal cancer care in a country with universal healthcare? A systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Objective: Patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer living in more deprived areas experience worse survival than those in more affluent areas. Those living in more deprived areas face barriers to accessing timely, quality healthcare. These barriers may contribute to socioeconomic inequalities in survival.

Where are the inequalities in ovarian cancer care in a country with universal healthcare? A systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Introduction: Patients diagnosed with ovarian cancer from more deprived areas may face barriers to accessing timely, quality healthcare. We evaluated the literature for any association between socioeconomic group, treatments received and hospital delay among patients diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the United Kingdom, a country with universal healthcare.

Methods: We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, CENTRAL, SCIE, AMED, PsycINFO and HMIC from inception to January 2023.

Parental death: a systematic review of support experiences and needs of children and parent survivors.

Background: Bereaved people need a supportive response from those around them. Knowing children's and surviving parents' needs following parental death is the first step to ensuring a supportive response. However, no systematic review has reported on this phenomenon.

Managing side effects of cancer immunotherapy for the acute physician.

Immunotherapy is a novel type of anti-cancer treatment that works by upregulating the host's immune system to fight against cancer cells. Landmark immunotherapy trials have demonstrated improvements in response rates and survival compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy. Specific immunotherapies known as checkpoint inhibitors are now routinely used in a range of cancers including melanoma, lung, renal and urological cancers.

What kind of doctor would you like me to be?

Background: The modern medical school curriculum highlights the importance of good communication skills, although some clinicians still remain sceptical about the reduction of core science teaching in favour of these so-called softer skills. Previous studies into these topics are few and contradictory, with a heavy dependence on methodology and geographical source.

Methods: A semi-structured interview was conducted using the question 'I am about to qualify as a doctor in less than a year's time.

Risk factors for emergency presentation with lung and colorectal cancers: a systematic review.

Objective: To identify patient and practitioner factors that influence cancer diagnosis via emergency presentation (EP).

Design: Systematic review.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, EBM Reviews, Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes, Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science and Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Social Science and Humanities.