Top tips: colorectal cancer
Dr Richard Roope provides top tips for GPs about identifying possible colorectal cancer and supporting patients to reduce risk and achieve the best outcomes
Top tips: personalising cancer care
Dr Anthony Cunliffe shares 10 top tips for primary care on the provision of personalised care for people with cancer
Unintended weight loss: what’s the diagnosis?
Dr Sonya Jey explains the importance of considering and excluding sinister causes of unintentional weight loss and explores some clinical scenarios in which unintentional weight loss is a feature
Top tips: lung cancer
Dr Anthony Cunliffe and Dr Richard Simcock share 10 top tips for primary care on the diagnosis and management of patients with lung cancer
Key learning points: NICE prostate cancer
Dr Sadaf Haque picks out five key learning points from the updated NICE prostate cancer guideline that are relevant to primary care
Skin lesions: what’s the diagnosis?
Dr James Thambyrajah uses case studies to illustrate four different types of skin lesion and describes how each condition should be managed in primary care
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Best practice in pancreatic cancer
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PROSTAP® DCS (leuprorelin acetate)
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COVID-19 rapid guideline: delivery of systemic anticancer treatments
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HeadSmart brain tumours in children guidance
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