Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial
@YorkshireKST
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Updates from the world's first kidney cancer screening trial. Funded by @YorkshireCancer, run by @Cambridge_Uni/@CRUKCamUrol and @UniversityLeeds.
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Joined February 2021
Excellent news this week: the Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial is officially the highest recruiting trial in the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust! @yorkshirecancer @Cambridge_Uni @CRUKCamUrol @UniversityLeeds @LeedsHospitals.
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RT @CRUKCamUrol: Our groundbreaking kidney cancer screening trial, the @YorkshireKST, closed to recruitment last week. 🩻🩺. Find out more ab….
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After 18 months, our groundbreaking kidney screening trial funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research, has closed to recruitment. Thousands of patients opted to add a 10-15 second kidney scan to their lung...
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#YKST is the first study to assess the feasibility of combining lung and kidney screening, and is currently screening patients in #Leeds .
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Introduction Kidney cancer (renal cell cancer (RCC)) is the seventh most common cancer in the UK. As RCC is largely curable if detected at an early stage and most patients have no symptoms, there is...
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The #YKST protocol paper by @JulietU_S is available to read now 👉👉👉
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Introduction Kidney cancer (renal cell cancer (RCC)) is the seventh most common cancer in the UK. As RCC is largely curable if detected at an early stage and most patients have no symptoms, there is...
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We're looking for a Programme Manager to help coordinate our Cambridge based activities with our Yorkshire trials team - apply here! 👇.
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RT @CRUKCamUrol: @YorkshireKST is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Programme Manager to co-ordinate the Cambridge based activiti….
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A collaboration between @Cambridge_Uni @UniversityLeeds @LeedsHospitals and @yorkshirecancer, the Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial was one of the most successful recruiting trials in LTH last year. Find out more about the groundbreaking work:
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RT @yorkshirecancer: The first is Fiona Farquhar, a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist @YorkshireKST. We chatted to Fiona about her role:. “I….
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RT @TUF_tweets: Urology Awareness Month was launched by @TUF_tweets in 2014 to raise awareness of, and educate the general public about, ur….
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RT @LungHealthCheck: Excellent news indeed. Seemless co-ordination between the @LungHealthCheck and @YorkshireKST teams. Team work makes t….
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Our PIs @grantissimus and @JulietU_S feature in @PCU_Cambridge this week talking about their new research on screening for kidney cancer 👇👇👇.
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You can find out more about the Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial at
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This will be the first study in the world (!) to test the clinical rationale and logistics of embedding a kidney screening clinical trial within a lung screening programme.
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Andrew MacNamara’s story highlights how, without a screening programme, catching kidney cancer is sometimes down to chance:
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From this week, patients invited to the @LungHealthCheck in #Leeds will have the option of participating in YKST with an additional quick and safe kidney CT scan to check for signs of kidney cancer.
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The Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial (YKST) is a collaboration between @Cambridge_Uni and @UniversityLeeds, made possible by funding from @YorkshireCancer.
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Yesterday we made history in #Yorkshire, opening world's first kidney cancer screening trial in #Leeds.
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RT @LungHealthCheck: We recruited the first patients to the @YorkshireKST with 💯% of eligible patients consented and scanned today. Fantast….
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