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Case studies

Through our research, we’re making a real difference to people’s lives.

Browse the stories and case studies in this section to learn more about how we’re improving health through the work we do.

Addressing Health Inequalities – Alternative CErvical Screening (ACES): Exploring opinions among the LGBTQIA+ community

Completed: Thursday, March 24, 2022

Researchers within Manchester BRC's Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Theme are undertaking ground-breaking research exploring the possibility of a urine test as an alternative to the ‘smear’ – the Alternative CErvical Screening (ACES) study.

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Addressing Health Inequalities – Widening participation to shape musculoskeletal research

Completed: Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Ensuring that people from under-represented groups have a voice in shaping research is vital in helping to recruit people from different backgrounds. It also helps to make sure new care and treatments work for everyone, not just a particular group of people.

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Addressing Health Inequalities – Developing a breast cancer risk assessment programme for young women

Completed: Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Our Cancer Prevention and Early Detection researchers aim to explore how personalised estimates of women's risk of breast cancer can help to reduce the number of deaths in younger women.

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Addressing Health Inequalities – The Manchester Lung Health Checks (LHC) pilot

Completed: Monday, March 2, 2020

The Lung Health Check (LHC) pilot brought lung cancer screening to some of the most deprived areas of Manchester.

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Addressing Health Inequalities – The British Lung Foundation Early Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Consortium Cohort study

Completed: Monday, March 2, 2020

Manchester BRC Respiratory researchers are working with the British Lung Foundation on a multi-centre study to better understand Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and reduce its impact on socially-deprived communities.

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Addressing Health Inequalities across Greater Manchester

Completed: Thursday, July 1, 2021

Addressing Health Inequalities is a major strategic focus across the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (MBRC), carried out in partnership with our NHS and academic partners to maximise understanding, impact, and outcomes.

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Manchester BRC’s response to COVID-19

Completed: Wednesday, June 30, 2021

NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) was at the heart of the Greater Manchester (GM) COVID-19 response, ensuring a coordinated approach to the city-wide research response, supporting NIHR Urgent Public Health (UPH) research studies, providing resource to underpin the research and innovat

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Improving personalised screening, treatment, and care through Polygenic Risk Scores.

Completed: Monday, June 28, 2021

Researchers from the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre’s (BRC) Cancer Prevention and Early Detection (PED) and Musculoskeletal themes are leading the way in the use of Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) to improve screening, care, and treatments for patients.

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