One in two people will be diagnosed with cancer sometime in their lifetime. These patients will present in your primary care practice often, making general practice a fundamental part in achieving good outcomes for cancer patients.
Learning Objectives:
- Update knowledge on the latest evidence for early cancer detection
- Learn to embed safety netting in your clinical practice
- Expand awareness of novel approaches to cancer detection
- Understand non-specific symptom (NSS) presentations and use of rapid diagnostic centres (RDCs)
- Learn how to support cancer patients once diagnosed and living with and beyond their cancer
- Explore the role of primary care networks and wider primary care teams in improving early diagnosis of cancer
Topics include:
- Urgent referrals and non-specific symptom pathways including RDCs
- Safety netting tips and tools
- Cancer testing and detection (including multi-cancer early detection tests)
- Haematological cancer update
- Supporting patients living with cancer including palliative and end of life care
- Cancer hot topics and the future of primary care in cancer
Conference Chair:
Dr Thomas Round MRCGP, General Practitioner and Academic Clinical Research Fellow
Curriculum:
CPD Points: 6.5
Time to complete this course: 6-7 hours
Date of publication: 1 December 2025
Mode: Webinar
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