Innovations to find and diagnose cancer earlier awarded more than £500k funding
Eight innovations have secured more than £500,000 of funding to produce new and improved methods of finding and diagnosing cancer at an early stage across the North East and North Cumbria.
Projects include using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help detect prostate cancer in Gateshead; raising awareness of skin cancer in rural and farming communities in County Durham; and encouraging patients to attend hospital appointments in Northumberland, North Tyneside and North Cumbria.
The grants come from an Unmet Need Call launched by Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria (HI NENC), in partnership with the Northern Cancer Alliance (NCA), with the aim of diagnosing 75 per cent of cancers at an early stage when treatment is more likely to be successful.
