The Pathway Toolkit is a suite of software tools that enable access to patient-level data across their cancer pathway. The Toolkit has a wide range of views and filters to create comparisons and includes national benchmarking data.
CORECT-R
June 15, 2020
Colorectal cancer is a major public health problem. Each year in the UK over 41,000 people are diagnosed with the disease and 16,000 die from it. Overall, survival rates are poor. High-quality data...
PCCRC Audit
June 11, 2020
Colonoscopy is the main diagnostic test used to identify colorectal (or bowel) cancer and involves a thin tube with a camera on the...
Cancer incidence and survival methodology
April 27, 2020
In the summer of 2019, one of our interns, David, worked to test two different statistical methodologies for calculating cancer incidence and survival...
Testing the Simulacrum
April 27, 2020
The Simulacrum is a database of synthetic data on cancer patients which imitates some of the data held securely by Public Health England’s National Cancer Registration and...
TrustCompare
April 8, 2020
TrustCompare is an application which compares how different NHS hospital trusts care for cancer patients. Different hospital trusts care for different sorts of people, and so...
Data Visualisations for detailed cancer statistics
April 8, 2020
The Get Data Out programme from Public Health England’s National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS) produces detailed statistics...
Data Extraction Automation
October 16, 2019
In the summer of 2019, one of our interns, Roan, worked to automate an existing internal process for extracting data...
Retinoblastoma Register
July 15, 2019
The Retinoblastoma Register is an online data collection and audit tool that allows clinicians specialising in the disease to audit the data collected on their patients by the National...
Real-world Standing Cohorts
March 26, 2019
The Real-World Standing Cohort study is a data analytical project which provides insight into the patient pathway to understand how cancer treatments are working and where...
The Brain Tumour Data Dashboard
March 25, 2019
The Brain Tumour Data Dashboard is an interactive online chart which shows the latest data released on brain tumours by the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service...
CAS Explorer
March 25, 2019
The CAS Explorer is an online interactive tool which shows the completeness of data fields within the Cancer Analysis Service (CAS) database held in the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS) part of...