{"id":4057,"date":"2017-09-29T13:19:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2017-09-29T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:19:26","slug":"breast-cancer-now-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/breast-cancer-now-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast Cancer Now visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Medical School was visited by representatives of Breast Cancer Now.\u00a0 They included the CEO for Breast Cancer Now Ms Delyth Morgan, Ms Fiona Hazell, Director of Communications and Engagement, and Ms Mary Allison (Director of Scotland, BCN).\u00a0 They arrived in the afternoon of Wednesday 27<sup>th<\/sup> September and spent most of their 2 hour visit discussing with Prof Gerry Humphris (Medicine): Dr Tom Kelsey (Computer Science), Reader; Dr Gozde Ozakinci, Senior Lecturer (Medicine) and Valetin Popov from CREEM about current research activity.\u00a0 The Medical School has received funding from BCN over the past year which has been extended for a further 2 years to run a project (Humphris, PI) to design a communication skills package for therapeutic radiographers in Scotland (FORECAST2), notably at the Edinburgh Cancer Centre with the support of patient groups and the College of Radiographers in London.\u00a0 Dr Ozakinci presented her recent work in attitudes to fertility in breast cancer patients and planning for project work in physical activity and improvements in health and reductions in recurrence fears.\u00a0 Dr Kelsey relayed his interest in the preparation of guidelines from empirical findings and also his expertise in use of e-mobile technology.\u00a0 Dr Popov provided an example of the use of Hidden Markov Modelling to understand sequences of interaction between clinician and patient revealing interesting patterns.\u00a0 Mara van Beusekom attended to be introduced as the new RA working with Humphris on the new intervention study (FORECAST2).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4058 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/09\/IMG_5603-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Visitors from Breast Cancer Now at the Medical School.\u00a0 The CEO of BCN (Delyth Morgan) displays a pottery bowl made by Ruth Freeman (Gerry\u2019s wife) to commemorate the FORECAST study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Medical School was visited by representatives of Breast Cancer Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":4058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[145,235,318,405,438,505,697,908],"class_list":["post-4057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-breast-cancer-now","tag-creem","tag-dr-gozde-ozakinci","tag-dr-valetin-popov","tag-edinburgh-cancer-centre","tag-forecast2","tag-mara-van-beusekom","tag-prof-gerry-humphris"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 14:47:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}