Podcast – Research Round-up

Nikki Davis speaks with Dr Gemma Skaczkowski, a Research Fellow from the University of South Australia, about what constitutes patient involvement in research

Dr Kristi Milley speaks with Associate Professor Dani Margalit and Dr Rebecca Venchiarutti about head and neck cancer.

Claire and Nicole are speaking with Dr Mohamad Saab from University College Cork, Ireland. He is a Lecturer in the UCC School of Nursing and Midwifery and a Registered General Nurse. They discuss Mohamad’s newly published paper, Referring high-risk individuals for lung cancer screening: A systematic review of interventions with healthcare professionals.

Kristi Milley continues her conversation with Professor Jon Emery, Herman Chair of Primary Care Research at the University of Melbourne, and Director of PC4. And Professor Michael Jefford, Medical Oncologist and Director of the Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre at the Peter MacCallum Centre.

Jon and Michael are part of a team of experts who have published a series of three papers around Cancer Survivorship in the Lancet. And for those of you who aren’t in research, The Lancet would be the silver medallist at the Olympics in medical journals. Today, we’re discussing the first two papers in the series: management of clinical issues experienced by survivors, and improved models of care for cancer survivors.

Kristi Milley speaks with Professor Jon Emery, Herman Chair of Primary Care Research at the University of Melbourne, and Director of PC4. And Professor Michael Jefford, Medical Oncologist and Director of the Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre at the Peter MacCallum Centre.

Jon and Michael are part of a team of experts who have published a series of three papers around Cancer Survivorship in the Lancet. And for those of you who aren’t in research, The Lancet would be the silver medallist at the Olympics in medical journals. Today, we’re discussing the first two papers in the series: management of clinical issues experienced by survivors, and improved models of care for cancer survivors.

Kristi Milley speaks with Dr Kellie Toohey, an exercise physiologist and academic at the University of Canberra. And Dr Michael Chapman, a geriatrician and palliative care physician. He is also the Director of Palliative Care at Canberra Hospital and a researcher at the Australian National University.

Kellie and Michael’s team recently published a systematic review in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship about the effects of physical exercise in the palliative care phase for people with advanced cancer.

Kristi Milley speaks with Dr Larry Myers, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cancer Council Queensland. Larry and his team recently published a study in the journal Psycho-Oncology about Mail-out bowel cancer screening: Identifying the behavioural stumbling blocks.

Kristi Milley speaks with Professor Larissa Nekhlyudov and Professor Ray Chan.

Kristi Milley speaks with Professor Larissa Nekhlyudov and Professor Ray Chan.

Kristi Milley speaks with Dr Fiona Crawford-Williams from Flinders University.
Fiona is a research fellow in the Cancer Survivorship program within the Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre at the Queensland University of Technology.

Kristi Milley speaks with Dr Daniel Jones an Academic Clinical Lecturer from the University of Leeds. Dan is an academic GP and his PhD looked at the diagnosis of lung and colorectal cancer in primary care.

Look out …it’s a HOST SWAP! member of the PC4 Community Advisory Group; Louise Bailey took reign of the microphone in this episode of Research Round-up to interview our own PC4 National Manager Dr Kristi Milley and Ms Sophie Chima from PC4 about their new paper published in the journal Health Expectations, Long-term consumer involvement in cancer research: Working towards partnership.

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Professor Ross Lawrenson and Dr Tania Blackmore from the University of Waikato. Ross is an academic GP and Professor of Population Health and Medical Research. Tania is a Senior Research Fellow with a background in Psychology. Together, they have published a study in BMC Family Practice titled How do colorectal cancer patients rate their GP: a mixed methods study.

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Andi Agbejule a PhD student in the Cancer Survivorship research group at the University of Queensland.Andi has recently published a systematic review titled ‘Outcomes of cancer survivorship education and training for primary care providers’ in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship. The paper identified published literature regarding cancer survivorship education programs for primary care providers and assessed their outcomes. As a result of the review seven key recommendations were proposed for developing and evaluating survivorship education programs which you can hear about in the episode. One of Andi’s key points was that future educational programs need to be more tailored to primary care practice.

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Prof Marjan van den Akker from Goethe University in Germany and Dr Laura Deckx from The University of Queensland.

Together Marjan and Laura have recently published ‘Psychosocial care for cancer survivors: A systematic literature review on the role of general practitioners.’ in the journal Psycho-Oncology.

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Dr Natalia Calanzani from Cambridge University in the UK. Natalia is a Research Associate and a member of the CanTest Collaborative. 

Natalia recently published ‘Identifying novel biomarkers ready for evaluation in low-prevalence populations for the early detection of upper gastrointestinal cancers: a systematic review’ in Advances in Therapy.

Look out …it’s a HOST SWAP!  Previous guest, and former host of PC4’s other podcast ‘Cheers with Peers’; Sibel Saya took reign of the microphone in this episode of Research Round-up to interview our own PC4 National Manager Dr Kristi Milley.  Kristi slid into the guest spotlight to answer questions about her most recent paper entitled “Look who’s talking now: Cancer in primary care on Twitter. An observational study“.  Kristi’s paper was published in BJGP Open.

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Professor Yoryos Lyratzopoulos and Dr Monica Koo from University College London. Yoryos is Professor of Cancer Healthcare Epidemiology and leads the Epidemiology of Cancer Healthcare and Outcomes (ECHO) group and Monica is a post-doctoral research associate in the ECHO group.

They recently published a paper ‘The prevalence of chronic conditions in patients diagnosed with one of 29 common and rarer cancers: A cross-sectional study using primary care data’ in the journal Cancer Epidemiology.

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Saskia Maass and Dr Annette Berendsen from the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. Saskia is both a researcher and GP in training. Annette was the Program Leader of Oncology Research in Primary Care at the Department of General Practice at the University of Groningen. 

They recently published a paper in the journal “The Breast” entitled “Symptoms in long-term breast cancer survivors: A cross-sectional study in primary care”

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Dr Karolina Lisy a senior research fellow at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre as well as a member of PC4’s Early Career Research Network.

Karolina recently published a paper in the Journal of Clinical Medicine entitled “Sharing Cancer Survivorship Care between Oncology and Primary Care Providers: A Qualitative Study of Health Care Professionals’ Experiences”