2009 Conference

The 2009 NCIN conference was held on 25 June 2009 at the National Motorcycle Museum near Birmingham. The full conference programme and abstracts can be downloaded here. Oral and poster presentations from the conference can be downloaded below.

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Plenary Speakers

Speaker	Title
Ciarán Devane	Welcomes
Mike Richards	NCIN one year on – How is the NCIN changing what we know about cancer?
Chris Carrigan	NCIN Work Programme for http://library.ncin.org.uk/conference/2009/10
David Forman	NCIN Report on Ethnicity and Cancer
Clare Sanderson	Developments in Information Governance
Bruce Armstrong	Research into Patterns of Cancer Care in New South Wales, Australia
Alex Markham	The immediate future, challenges for the coming years....
Lynn Faulds-Wood	Challenges to NCIN from the Patient Perspective

Parallel Session 1: Cancer - the UK and International Comparisons

NCIN in partnership with Cancer Research UK

Speaker	Title
Max Van Eijk	The international comparisons scoping study
Anthony Moran	POOR PROGRESS IN CANCER CONTROL IN ELDERLY IN UK
Sara Erridge	EXPLORING DIFFERENCES IN SURVIVAL FROM LUNG CANCER IN SCOTLAND COMPARED TO BRITISH COLUMBIA: A POPULATION-BASED STUDY
Henrik Møller	BREAST CANCER SURVIVAL IN ENGLAND, NORWAY AND SWEDEN: A POPULATIONBASED STUDY

Parallel Session 2: Exploiting linkage of Primary Care, Secondary Care and follow up data

NCIN in partnership with the CfH Research Capability Programme

Speaker	Title
Peter Knight	The CfH Research Capability Programme
James Thomas	NATIONAL CANCER DATA REPOSITORY: THE NEXT STEP; MERGING THE REGISTRIES DATA
Eva Morris	ROUTINE FOLLOW-UP IN NATIONAL CLINICAL TRIALS USING THE NATIONAL CANCER DATA REPOSITORY (NCDR)
Sean McPhail	IMPACT OF UROLOGICAL CANCER, BY STAGE AT DIAGNOSIS

Parallel Session 3: Survivorship

NCIN in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support

Speaker	Title
Catherine Boyle	Introduction
Henrik Møller	CANCER PREVALENCE IN THE UK: ESTIMATES FOR 2008
Ranjeet Jeevan	ARE WOMEN UNDERGOING MASTECTOMY OFFERED IMMEDIATE BREAST RECONSTRUCTION? RESULTS FROM A NATIONAL PROSPECTIVE AUDIT
Richard Feltbower	DIFFERENCES IN HOSPITAL ADMISSION PATTERNS BETWEEN ATTENDERS AND NONATTENDERS AT A PAEDIATRIC LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP CLINIC IN YORKSHIRE, UK.

Parallel Session 4: Transforming Data Collection and Management to Inform Outcomes

NCIN in partnership with The Information Centre for Health and Social Care

Speaker	Title
Clare Sanderson	Introduction
Tom Palser	MONITORING OUTCOMES AFTER CURATIVE SURGERY AMONG PATIENTS WITH OESOPHAGO-GASTRIC CANCER: THE UTILITY OF PATHOLOGY REPORTS
Catherine Lagord	THE BCCOM PROJECT: USING DATA TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE AND PROMOTE GOOD PRACTICE
Lisa Ranaghan	N. IRELAND HSC CANCER PATIENT PATHWAY SYSTEM: BENEFITS FOR ALL

Parallel Session 5: Outcomes data for Patients and Public

NCIN in partnership with NDP Partnership Forum and NCRI Consumer Liaison Group

Speaker	Title
Emma Gilgunn-Jones,	Introduction
Veronique Poirier	DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL SKIN CANCER HUB - FROM EPIDEMIOLOGY TO PREVENTION
Gill Lawrence	UNEXPLAINED NATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF DCIS REVEALED BY AUDIT: THE SLOANE PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Andy Pring	PATTERNS OF HOSPITAL CARE NEAR END OF LIFE

Poster presentations:

No.	Presenting Author	Title
3	Michael Chapman	A TEMPLATE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLICIES FOR ACCESS TO DATA OR BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES FOR RESEARCH
9	Alexandra Smith	HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY RESEARCH NETWORK: A MODEL FOR POPULATION BASED DATA COLLECTION?
10	Vivian Mak	AN ANALYSIS OF CANCER INEQUALITIES IN LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST COAST SHAS
11	Sacha Howell	PILOT PROJECT TO LINK THE RADIOTHERAPY DATASET (RTDS) AND NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BREAST SCREENING PROGRAMME (NHSBSP) TO ENHANCE SCREENING OUTCOMES FOR WOMEN AT INCREASED RISK OF BREAST CANCER (BC) AFTER SUPRADIAPHRAGMATIC RADIOTHERAPY (SRT) FOR HODGKIN L
12	Alistair Stirling	EVOLUTION OF A REFERRAL PROCESS, DATA COLLATION AND OUTCOME REPORTING SYSTEM FOR METASTATIC SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION
17	Gulnaz Iqbal	CANETH: IMPROVING ETHNICITY DATA COLLECTION FOR STATISTICS OF CANCER INCIDENCE, PREVALENCE AND SURVIVAL IN THE UNITED KINGDOM – PUBLIC AND PROFESSIONALS PERCEPTIONS
19	Christine Head	USING CANCER WAITING TIMES DATA AS AN INITIAL NOTIFICATION FOR CANCER REGISTRATION
20	Linda McNamara	UTILISING DATA TO BETTER INFORM ‘VARIANCE IN CANCER CARE’ AND IMPROVE OUTCOMES
21	Robin Crawford	STREAMLINING CARE FOR WOMEN WITH GESTATIONAL TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE IN THE LOCAL HOSPITAL
22	Anita Killingworth	SPINAL ONCOLOGY REFERRAL FORM EVOLUTION & RATIONALE
25	Ken Lloyd	USING THE RADIOTHERAPY TOOLKIT AND EXISTING RADIOTHERAPY DATA TO MODEL THE CAPACITY REQUIRED TO ACHIEVE THE NATIONAL RADIOTHERAPY ADVISORY GROUP (NRAG) RECOMMENDED OPTIMAL TREATMENT
26	Russell Cowell	THE NORTH WEST STAGING PROJECT
28	Veronique Poirier	SKIN CANCER IN THE SOUTH WEST - CHANGING EPIDEMIOLOGY
32	Steven Oliver	WHERE DO PATIENTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL CANCER DIE? A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL MORTALITY DATA BY CANCER NETWORK AND DISEASE SUB-GROUP
35	Janet Dunn	INNOVATIVE WAYS OF FOLLOWING‐UP EARLY BREAST CANCER PATIENTS: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE IBREAST TRIAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP
36	M. Kumari	A REVIEW OF COLORECTAL AND BREAST CANCER REFERRAL PATTERNS AND OUTCOMES IN A DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL. DOES AN ESTABLISHED SCREENING PROGRAMME FOR CANCER HAVE AN IMPACT ON REFERRAL PATTERNS AND OUTCOMES?
38	Ruth H Jack	BREAST CANCER INCIDENCE, TREATMENT AND SURVIVAL IN ETHNIC GROUPS IN SOUTH EAST ENGLAND
39	Victoria H Coupland	DOES PLACE OF DEATH FROM LUNG, COLORECTAL, BREAST, AND PROSTATE CANCER VARY BETWEEN ETHNIC GROUPS?
41	Amy Downing	INVESTIGATING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ETHNICITY AND SURVIVAL FROM BREAST CANCER USING ROUTINELY COLLECTED HEALTH DATA: CHALLENGES AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS