What’s the title of the project?
Breast Cancer Surgery Priority Setting Partnership
What is the project about?
Let us know your priorities for breast cancer surgery research, and help increase funding.
A survey has recently been launched to bring together organisations, people with breast cancer, carers, and clinicians to identify their research priorities in the field of breast cancer surgery.
Breast Cancer Now, as part of the Academic and Research Committee of the Association of Breast Surgery are contributing as partners on the initiative along with others such as the wider Association of Breast Surgery, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, and Independent Cancer Patients’ Voice.
You may have some unanswered questions about breast cancer surgery and a good idea of what knowledge and support would make a difference to your quality of life, or those that you care for or work with.
The topics we are covering are:
- Identification and management of people at increased risk of breast cancer
- Assessment, diagnosis and choice of initial treatment for people with breast cancer
- Surgical techniques, technologies and devices, including questions about breast conservation (breast preserving surgery) and breast reconstruction
- Interactions between surgery and other treatments like chemotherapy and radiotherapy
- Quality of life issues (in both the short and long term) related to the surgery for breast cancer
We encourage you to take part in this survey and let us know where you think research should be directed in the future. The goal is to increase government funding for breast cancer surgery research, and the process has a track record of success, incentivising researchers to respond to patient priorities and bringing greater cohesion amongst organisations.
Who’s organising it?
Academic and Research Committee of the Association of Breast Surgery
Lucy Davies – lucydavies@absgbi.org.uk
What’s the criteria for taking part?
The survey takes just 5 minutes to complete and is open to anyone with a personal or professional connection to breast cancer surgery.
What do I need to do?
For more information visit: associationofbreastsurgery.org.uk/professionals/research/breast-cancer-surgery-priority-setting-partnership/
To take part in the survey and make yourself heard visit:
When’s the deadline?
30 June 2021