The Public Health Forum for Cancer Networks and PCTs in South East England held its second workshop “Ethnicity and Cancer: Epidemiology, Experience and Commissioning” on 25th March 2010. The meeting was held at King’s College London and attended by around 40 public health professionals. We are pleased to make some of the presentations available as pdf documents below.

The next workshop is planned for May 20th 2010 and will consider methods for calculating cancer survival and current debates about the best use of survival measures. Please contact Joan.Laws@kcl.ac.uk if you are interested in receiving information about this, and Dr Elizabeth Davies, Medical Director of the Thames Cancer Registry Elizabeth.Davies@kcl.ac.uk if you have suggestions for topics that might be covered.

Incidence, treatment and survival for common cancers in ethnic groups in South East England  (PDF)
Ms Ruth Jack, Information Analyst, Thames Cancer Registry
Breast cancer incidence, stage, treatment and survival in ethnic groups in South East England.
Prostate cancer incidence, stage at diagnosis, treatment and survival in ethnic groups in South-East England.

Does place of death from cancer vary between ethnic groups in South East England?  (PDF)
Ms Victoria Coupland, Information Analyst, Thames Cancer Registry

Servicing culture and diversity in the provision of palliative care (PDF)
Dr Jonathan Koffman, Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care, King's College London

Do Black women with breast cancer have unrecognised support needs? (PDF)
Mr Paul Trevatt, Macmillan Nurse Director, North East London Cancer Network

Establishing approach to commissioning cancer services for BME groups (PDF)
Ms Paula Lloyd, Associate Director Patient Experience, National Cancer Action Team