The Lived Experience of Patients with Cancer of Unknown Primary

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  What is the lived experience of patients who present to the emergency department and are then diagnosed with a Cancer of Unknown Primary?

• IRAS ID

  217154

• Contact name

  Alice Andrews

• Contact email

  14089702@brookes.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Oxford Brookes University

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 8 months, 17 days

• Research summary

  With the information gained, I want to learn more about what has happened in the weeks and months before your diagnosis. I hope that by gaining this information, the referral process for suspected cancer of unknown primary can be looked at in more detail and improvements can be made to it if needed.

• REC name

  North East - Tyne & Wear South Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  17/NE/0207

• Date of REC Opinion

  19 Jul 2017

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion