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New GatewayC Course: Cervical Cancer – Early Diagnosis
4th November 2021 The GatewayC team are delighted to announce that we have a new course ‘Cervical Cancer-Early Diagnosis’ available to all healthcare professionals on GatewayC. Cervical cancer is the 14th most common cancer in women in the UK, with around 3,200 women...
What is the risk of prostate cancer if a patient has a normal PSA but an abnormal DRE?
29th October 2021 Missed our GatewayC Live webinar? Watch our specialists answer to this audience question and many more. This week, GatewayC met Mr Sotonye Tolofari, Consultant Urological Surgeon, and Mr Alex Hoyle, Consultant Urologist. Our specialists covered...
Tips to elicit your patient’s family history of BRCA1 and BRCA2
20th October 2021 Taking a good family history allows geneticists to triage referrals appropriately. BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations are characterised by an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancers; furthermore, the genes also carry an increased risk of prostate...
Cancer Keys
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Cancer Keys: New-onset diabetes and pancreatic cancer
18th November 2021 Potential pitfall: Diabetes, especially Type 2, is common among the general population. However, unexplained new-onset diabetes should be investigated as a possible indicator of pancreatic cancer. It is also important to ask patients about other...
Cancer Keys: Myeloma and C.R.A.B
30th September 2021 C.R.A.B is the acronym designed to simplify the most typical clinical manifestations of multiple myeloma. Clinicians should consider the following indicators in a potential myelomadiagnosis: C: Calcium – hypercalcaemia Symptoms include: excessive...
Cancer Keys: Persistent bone pain and myeloma
25th June 2021 Patients often visit healthcare professionals several times prior to the diagnosis of myeloma. This is mainly due to presenting symptoms being vague or overlapping with other conditions. Patients with myeloma can experience persistent bone pain –...
Personal Stories
I was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer 10 years after my primary diagnosis
13th October 2021 I’m Natalie Woodford and I received a primary breast cancer diagnosis in 2007 and was subsequently diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in 2017. I treasured the ten years I had watching my daughter grow up, being an active family member again and...
You, Me and GatewayC… An interview with Lauren Mahon and Deborah James
11 January 2019 GatewayC is an online cancer education platform for primary care. It is designed to support GPs with earlier cancer detection to improve outcomes and experiences for patients. GatewayC works with people affected by cancer to understand how to better...
“My cancer was missed… I’m passionate it doesn’t happen again.”
7th January 2019 GatewayC aims to support primary care in the early diagnosis of cancer, to support patient outcomes and experiences. According to the National Cancer Diagnosis Audit, around one quarter of patients have three or more visits to primary care before a...