Cancer screening in older adults

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This project is complete.

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​Researchers at the University of Sydney are interested in hearing from GPs who are practising in Australia about their approaches to breast, cervical, prostate and/or bowel cancer screening in older adults aged 70 years or older.

 

This project is published in Family Practice: "General practitioners’ views and experiences of communicating with older people about cancer screening: a qualitative study".

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The researcher has presented at a few conferences:

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• Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference, Calgary, Canada. 9th-12th June 2022. https://www.preventingoverdiagnosis.net/?page_id=21

• International Shared Decision Making Conference. Kolding, Denmark. 20th-22nd June 2022. https://www.isdm2022.com/program

• International Conference on Communication in Healthcare. Glasgow, United Kingdom. 5th-9th September 2022. https://na.eventscloud.com/website/39334/

• NSW Cancer Conference, Sydney, Australia. 15th September 2022. https://www.nswcancerconference.com.au/

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If you have any questions or require any further information, please email Jenna Smith (jenna.smith@sydney.edu.au), the lead researcher of the study.