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DTSTAMP:20171011T141513Z
DTSTART:20171219T130000Z
DTEND:20171219T160000Z
SUMMARY:Early Cancer Detection and Community Based Life Style Change
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DESCRIPTION:Seminar 2pm - 4 pm\, free networking lunch from 1 pm\n\nYou a
 re invited to an interactive seminar about disease risk assessment\, pre
 vention and early diagnosis\, focusing on initially on cancer. \n\nAs pa
 rt of a national cancer project and included in Greater Manchester’s can
 cer strategy\, a team at the University of Manchester\, led by Prof Ken 
 Muir\, has been working on a new tool which you are invited to try out a
 nd feedback on. \n\nThe project is to develop and test an on-line cancer
  risk assessment tool. In the future (we hope) this will be widely avail
 able for the public to use either themselves or with help from either a 
 healthcare professional or trained worker. \n\nThe on-line tool is a que
 stionnaire where the responses are used to generate a risk score followe
 d by advice and signposting to further help and support. There are two e
 lements to the tool\; questions about lifestyle which gives a risk score
  of developing cancer in the future and advice on how to reduce that ris
 k\, and questions about symptoms which gives a risk score of actually ha
 ving a cancer diagnosis.  \n\nThis seminar is an opportunity to hear fro
 m researchers on how the tool has been developed and is evolving as well
  as a chance to test out the tool yourself and feedback on how it can be
  improved. We are very aware of how opinions about cancer vary and how m
 uch fear persists. Our challenge is to raise awareness and knowledge to 
 give people choices to determine their own life course and reduce diseas
 e risk\, while not at the same time increasing anxiety unnecessarily. \n
 \nLooking forward we are interested in how the tool would work at a comm
 unity level and in widening its scope to include other diseases. Would y
 ou like to be trained as a lifestyle coach or expert patient to help peo
 ple in your community improve their health and reduce their cancer risk?
  Or would you be interested in coming together to lobby for better food\
 , better access to physical activity\, more alcohol control\, more green
  space\, better access to healthcare or diagnostics? \n\nCancer is often
  serious\, but is preventable\, very treatable\, often curable and well 
 worth talking about – come and join us on the 19th December.\n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:G306B\, Jean McFarlane Building \, Oxford Rd\, Manchester\, M139
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