COLO-SPEED

COLO-SPEED was devised by a group of keen bowel cancer researchers and funded with a grant of £985,000 from NHS cancer charity, the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation. COLO-SPEED aims to be the world largest research platform developing and delivering bowel cancer research, within bowel cancer screening, prevention, and early diagnosis... This experimental platform will provide a resource for clinicians (doctors and nurses), researchers, industry and (we hope, in due course) patients, to propose research studies and for these to be conducted rapidly. We are working with North Lab, a world-leading group with a strong track record in developing user-friendly applications of new technology, to design an IT platform to host the information from patients who agree to take part in COLO-SPEED... COLO-COHORT aims to develop a "risk stratification tool" to help determine which patients are at highest risk of having polyps or cancer; this tool will be able to be used in the future to work out which..

Primary location: South Shields United Kingdom