Funded by Macmillan Cancer support
Chief Investigator - Professor Claire Foster
Experiences and outcomes of cancer treatment and care are changing. A growing number of people are experiencing cancer not as a life-limiting disease, but as a life-changing and long-term condition. There is a growing imperative to understand the changing landscape of cancer and its consequences: as we do so, we will be better able to inform the design and delivery of cost effective interventions and services.
Commencing in early 2016 the purpose of this programme is to establish a series of cohorts of cancer patients to capture their health outcomes and experiences before they begin treatment and then regularly over their life-course to identify what influences these. During the programme we will systematically engage, and support, people affected by cancer as partners in our research.
Initially the cohorts will include
The Macmillan HORIZONS Programme led by the University of Southampton will provide the robust and comprehensive data that the patient, clinical, and policy communities need to transform care for people living with and beyond cancer. By carefully capturing evidence prospectively and over the time about cancer survivors’ life histories we will be in a position to understand what consequences are faced, when and what can be done to improve the lives of people living with and beyond cancer.
If you would like further information about this research programme please contact us on 02380 596885 or email us at horizons@soton.ac.uk.