Cancer paper wins Research Paper of the Year

2 November 2015

A research paper published in 2014 by researchers from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC) and colleagues from the universities of Cambridge and Exeter has won Research Paper of the Year Award 2014 from the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).

The RCGP Research Paper of the Year Award gives recognition to an individual or group of researchers who have undertaken and published an exceptional piece of research relating to general practice or primary care.

The paper, ‘Preferences for cancer investigation: a vignette-based study of primary-care attendees’, was published in the journal Lancet Oncology and highlighted public preference for testing and investigation for cancer even at low levels of risk.

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