Targeting kidney cancer screening at people at higher risk shows promise

New research from Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial leads Professor Grant Stewart and Dr Juliet Usher-Smith shows that a risk stratified model of kidney cancer screening would be acceptable to the public. Professor Stewart, Dr Usher-Smith and colleagues' recently published BMJ article, 'Reasons for intending to accept or decline kidney cancer screening: thematic analysis of free text from an online survey', analysed free-text responses to an online survey.

Published today, the University of Cambridge Primary Care Unit blog features a summary of current research on kidney cancer screening from the Urological Malignancies programme.