Strategies to reduce social gradient in Bowel Cancer Screening
Centre of Cancer Prevention
Principal Investigator: Stephen Duffy,
Overview
ASCEND is a series of cluster randomised trials of use of different information resources, GP endorsement, and enhanced reminder services to promote participation in bowel cancer screening.
The interventions are designed with particular emphasis on effects on low socioeconomic status populations, with the aim of bringing participation in these populations closer to the rates prevailing in more affluent groups.
Further details
The PI of this study is Rosalind Raine, UCL. Stephen Duffy is the study statistician and local investigator.
Staff
- Adam Brentnall
- Amanda Dibden
- Dharmishta Parmar
- Peter Sasieni
- Stephen Duffy
- Nathalie Massat
Contact
Stephen Duffy
Email: s.w.duffy@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7882 3535