Rachet B

ORCID: 0000-0001-5837-7773 · 2 papers in corpus
2021
Can we screen for pancreatic cancer? Identifying a sub-population of patients at high risk of subsequent diagnosis using machine learning techniques applied to primary care data.
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0251876

BackgroundPancreatic cancer (PC) represents a substantial public health burden. Pancreatic cancer patients have very low survival due to the difficulty of identifying cancers early when the tumour is localised to the site of origin and trea…

2019
Contrasting effects of comorbidities on emergency colon cancer diagnosis: a longitudinal data-linkage study in England.
BMC health services research ·doi:10.1186/s12913-019-4075-4

BackgroundOne in three colon cancers are diagnosed as an emergency, which is associated with worse cancer outcomes. Chronic conditions (comorbidities) affect large proportions of adults and they might influence the risk of emergency present…