Tag: Glioblastoma

Poster presentation at BNOS 2022 in Liverpool

Submitting a 250-word abstract can be quite easy as we enter our name, affiliation and press the submit button. But when the BNOS committee accepted mine, this is when the real work started. This year my hard working colleagues secured oral presentations while I had fun designing a poster explaining the first line of treatment of adult glioblastoma patients in England 2013 – 2018 from the Gliocova project.

I presented this work at the BNOS conference in Liverpool in 2022, as part of the Computational Oncology Laboratory.

The cost of treating adult glioblastoma patients in England (2013-2018) – BNOS

I have just given a talk about our work at the BNOS conference in Liverpool, and thought I should write something about the work we have been doing.

The GlioCova project has data on the patient demographics, tumour demographics, and the treatments received (chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and neurosurgery) of 50,000+ adult patients diagnosed with a primary brain tumour between 2013-2018. We specifically have information on the inpatient and outpatient NHS admissions in HES tables of these patients from 3 months before diagnosis (the end of 2012) and follow-up data after diagnosis (up to the end of 2019). Using this rich and detailed patient-level dataset as well as software publicly available from the NHS (HRG4+ Reference Costs Grouper), we provided comprehensive up-to-date estimations of the secondary care costs of cranial glioblastoma patients. My work was the first attempt to estimate the treatment and care costs of the commonest primary malignant brain tumour in a multi-year whole population cohort in England.

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