News and Updates
Winner of the MelaTools GP survey
Posted by Merel Pannebakker
Our GP survey is now closed, thank you all who have participated. We had our prize draw last week, and Dr Mary Harrington, an ST3 from St Mary’s surgery in Timsbury near Bath has won the i-tunes vouchers worth £100. Congratulations Mary!
MelaTools SSM trial protocol paper accepted
Posted by Merel Pannebakker
Today our MelaTools SSM trial protocol paper was accepted for publication by BMJ open. Well done to Katie Mills, the lead author!
Mills K, Emery JD, Lantaff R, Radford M, Pannebakker MM, Hall P, Burrows NP, Williams KM, Saunders CL, Murchie P, Walter FM. (2017). Protocol for the MelaTools Skin Self-Monitoring Trial: a phase II randomised controlled trial of an intervention for primary care patients at higher risk of melanoma. BMJ Open.
MelaTools SSM trial 12-month follow-up
Posted by Merel Pannebakker
We are now starting the 12-month (final) follow-up for the phase II MelaTools Skin Self-Monitoring trial. We are quite excited about this – in a couple of months we will have finished data collection!
MelaTools SSM trial 6-month follow-up
Posted by Merel Pannebakker
We cannot believe it has been 6 months already for some of our participants on the Melatools SSM trial! Follow-up questionnaires will be posted shortly.
Cancer in primary care conference -Ca-PRI
Posted by Merel Pannebakker
We are looking forward to this exciting and very relevant conference held in Edinburgh this April. Dr Fiona Walter and Prof Jon Emery will be leading a workshop on "Developing cancer risk assessment tools for use in primary care", using some of the MelaTools programme findings.
New member of the Research Team
Posted by Katie Mills
Merel Pannebakker has joined the research team and has taken over from Katie Mills. We would like to thank Katie for her excellent work and wish her well in her exciting new role within the Unit. Check out Merel's details on the Research Team page. The contact telephone number has stayed the same but the email address has changed.
Recruitment for the phase II MelaTools Skin Self-Monitoring trial has now closed
Posted by Katie Mills
Recruitment for the phase II MelaTools Skin Self-Monitoring trial has now closed. The research nurses at the Clinical Research Network (CRN) in the East of England have done a wonderful job recruiting 238 participants to our trial.
New Publication from the Research Team
Posted by Katie Mills
Dr Juliet Usher-Smith, Prof Jon Emery, Dr Fiona Walter and colleagues have recently published the MelaTools Q findings about identifying people at higher risk of melanoma from primary care, and recruiting in England, Wales and Scotland, in the British Journal of Dermatology.