Following on from a record month for COLO-COHORT recruitment in October (with just under 400 participants recruited into the study) COLO-COHORT has officially marked its next major milestone of 6000...
COLO-DETECT trial manager, Dr Alexander Seager, presented COLO-DETECT research at the United European Gastroenterology UEG Week 2023in Copenhagen. This prominent event, which took place from 14-17 October, serves as a leading...
The September 2023 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter is now available online. In this issue we have a spotlight feature on one of our funders, Parabola Foundation, as well as...
The COLO-SPIRIT team have published their review of existing research into long-term bowel symptoms amongst cancer survivors, in the journal "Cancers”. You can access the paper on our website and...
Members of the COLO-SPIRIT research team recently attended the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) 2023 World Congress, from 31st August to 3rd September, in Milan. They presented the findings of their...
COLO-COHORT recruitment has been highly successful over the past 5 months, with 1000 new participants recruited into the study since the end of March, resulting in a grand total of...
The June 2023 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter is now available online. In this edition you can catch up on the latest study news as well as updates on the...
A paper from our STOP-ADENOMA study (which follows on from a completed clinical trial called seAFOod) has been published in the Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids journal. Below is...
Dr Alexander Seager, Gastrointestinal Research Fellow at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, has been invited to speak about the COLO-DETECT trial at Intelligent Health UK 2023. Intelligent Health...
The COLO-DETECT trial, which closed to recruitment in March, has been in the spotlight! A number of local and UK-wide news organisations, including BBC North, Express, Sunday Sun (in print),...
Prof Colin Rees, COLO-SPEED Co-Chief Investigator, was interviewed last month for an ITV Tyne Tees news report about bowel cancer in the North East. In the interview, he highlighted the...
The March 2023 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter is now available online. In this edition you will find all the latest study news as well as an update on the...
We are thrilled to report that COLO-COHORT has officially recruited 4000 patients, doubling recruitment numbers from this time last year. COLO-COHORT Co-Chief Investigator, Prof Colin Rees, has expressed his delight...
We are very pleased to announce that we have completed recruitment to the COLO-DETECT trial. This is a brilliant achievement and we are very grateful to our sites for all...
The British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) has featured Dr Laura Neilson in a masterclass video on their website looking at the importance of lesion detection and adenoma detection rate (ADR)...
In support of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, COLO-SPEED Chief Investigator, Prof. Colin Rees, and Lead Research Nurse, Ingrid Emmerson, have been featured on episode 9 of the Our People Podcast...
This year’s CPAW theme is to highlight the link between processed meat and bowel cancer – with their #SarnieSwap campaign encouraging people swap out the processed meat in their diet...
This week COLO-SPEED joins the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, along with the wider football community, in the Bobby ’90 birthday tribute. Bobby ‘90 celebrates the life and legacy of Newcastle...
The December 2022 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter is now available online. Make sure to check it out for all the latest study news and an update on the upcoming IPAQ...
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Newcastle University researchers in Gastroenterology and Hepatology are celebrating being ranked as top 10 in the latest US News Best Global Universities listing, conducted in collaboration with Clarivate. The league...
The September 2022 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter is now available online. Make sure to check it out for all the latest study news and updates as well as a...
We are very pleased to announce that COLO-COHORT has now surpassed its next major milestone of recruiting 3000 patients! Prof Colin Rees, COLO-COHORT Chief Investigator, has provided the following message...
We are delighted to announce that COLO-DETECT has now passed its second major milestone of recruiting 1000 patients into the trial and is now halfway to its target of 2000...
We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Colin Rees has been appointed as the new President Elect of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG). His term is set to run...
The first edition of the COLO-DETECT newsletter is now available online and has also been circulated to our study sites, stakeholders and subscribers. To stay up to speed with the...
The June 2022 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter is now available online and has also been circulated to our study sites, stakeholders and subscribers. Make sure to check it out...
The COLO-DETECT protocol paper has been published in Colorectal Disease. The paper is available to view online. For more on COLO-DETECT, please view the study page below.
We are very pleased to report that COLO-DETECT recently passed its first major milestone of recruiting 500 patients into the study! Since recruitment commenced in March 2021 at our sponsor...
We are thrilled to announce that we have received a prestigious funding award, from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), to examine the use of 'FIT' testing for people...
We are delighted to announce that COLO-COHORT has officially surpassed its next major milestone of recruiting 2000 patients! Recruitment rates have recovered well since re-opening the study after the peak...
The March 2022 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter is now available online and has also been circulated to our study sites, stakeholders and subscribers. Make sure to check it out...
The COLO-COHORT protocol paper has been published in Colorectal Disease. The paper is available to view online. For more on COLO-COHORT, please view the study page below.
The December 2021 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter has been circulated to our study sites and subscribers. If you would like to stay up to speed with the latest COLO-COHORT...
We are pleased to announce that COLO-COHORT has reached its next major milestone, with 1500 patients now recruited into the study! Recruitment figures have risen steadily during 2021, trebling since...
Work led by South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Trust in collaboration with Newcastle University has delivered the world's first fully patient derived Experience Measure for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Previous measures have...
Paula Fowler, a patient who has played an integral role in patient and public involvement activities for COLO-SPEED, has been featured on the Chronicle Live website. In the article, Paula...
Guts UK are looking to appoint three volunteer Experts by Experience to sit on their Research Awards Committee. Experts by Experience (EBEs) are people who are living with a digestive...
COLO-COHORT has officially recruited its first 1000 patients, doubling the number of patients recruited into the study in just 4 months! We have seen a notable increase in recruitment rates...
Professor Mark Hull and colleagues are working to understand whether medicines such as aspirin, which reduce bowel polyps in the short-term, have prolonged benefit even after they have been stopped....
COLO-SPEED Chief Investigator, Prof. Colin Rees, has been announced as the winner of the prestigious British Society of Gastroenterologists (BSG) and National Institute of Health Research Clinical Research Network (NIHR...
Jennifer Smith, a COLO-COHORT participant who was recently recruited at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, has been featured in an NIHR Clinical Research Network North East and North...
The May 2021 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter is now available. You can find the newsletter online if you would like to catch up on the latest COLO-COHORT news and...
COLO-SPEED team members from South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle University and Leeds University have participated in the first ever Sir Bobby’s Football Run. The fundraising campaign, which...
All participants in the seAFOod Trial (see Participant Summary of Results) provided written informed consent for the STOP-ADENOMA team to obtain the results of future colonoscopy tests up to six...
We are very pleased to announce that COLO-COHORT has reached a major milestone with 500 patients now recruited into the study! We would like to extend a big thank you...
COLO-COHORT, a COLO-SPEED study, is committed to supporting and developing researchers of the future and is spearheading the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator (PI) Scheme for Gastroenterology. The scheme, which aims...
The COLO-DETECT study, which is looking at the ability of a new artificial intelligence device (GI Genius™) to help clinicians find polyps during a large bowel camera test (colonoscopy) –...
Mr Alexander Seager (Colorectal Surgical Trainee) has joined South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust as a clinical research fellow to help deliver the COLO-DETECT study. COLO-DETECT is a clinical...
The November 2020 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter has been circulated to our study sites and subscribers. You can find the online version here if you would like to stay...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact upon society as a whole and this has affected medical research. COLO-SPEED, COLO-COHORT and associated studies had to pause recruitment of patients...
In a proof of concept study amongst healthy volunteers recruited at Newcastle University, FIT kits used in the bowel cancer screening programme were tested to assess suitability for testing the...
The COLO-SPEED (Colorectal Cancer Screening, Prevention, Endoscopy and Early Diagnosis) team recently won a prestigious patient care award for its world-leading endoscopy research. The team won the ‘Research’ category in...
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