The case study below demonstrates how implementing effective safety netting, including the use of e-safety netting tools, at key touchpoints in the primary care pathway can support timelier diagnosis.

Safety-netting tools are electronic systems designed to improve the tracking and follow-up of patients who may be at risk of cancer.

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Surgery to remove your testicles (orchidectomy) Surgery to remove your testicles is a type of hormone therapy for prostate cancer. But it is not a common treatment choice. The testicles produce ...

Cancer is when abnormal cells divide in an uncontrolled way. Some cancers may eventually spread into other tissues. There are more than 200 different types of cancer. 1 in 2 people in the UK will get ...

You might have stereotactic ablative radiotherapy to treat liver cancer. Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) gives radiotherapy from many different angles around the body. The beams meet at the ...

Genetic tests on your chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) cells You have tests on your blood and bone marrow to look for changes in certain genes . This helps: diagnose your type of leukaemia learn more ...

The SYMPLIFY study This study is looking at the Galleri test in people with possible cancer symptoms. It has now closed to recruitment. Everyone in the study had tests to check for cancer in the usual ...

Grade Groups of prostate cancer The Grade Group is the most common system doctors use to grade prostate cancer. It has replaced the Gleason score. The grade of a cancer tells you how much the cancer ...

Doctors use Grade Groups and other information to divide prostate cancer into 5 groups called the the Cambridge Prognostic Group (CPG). The stage tells you the size of the cancer and whether it has ...

Mesothelioma is a cancer that most commonly starts in the sheets of skin-like tissue that cover each lung (the pleura). More rarely it starts in the sheet of tissue in the abdomen that covers the ...

Palliative care aims to relieve symptoms of cancer and improve your quality of life rather than cure your cancer. You can have it at any stage after a diagnosis of advanced cancer.