A grant of £5000 was given to Wellbeing of Women for a 3-year project (June 2020 – June 2023) to develop a risk prediction model for endometrial (womb) cancer.

Womb cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women, after breast, lung and bowel cancer and incidences have doubled in the last 20 years. Around 10,000 women are diagnosed annually in the UK and 2,500 die.

If caught early surgery is very effective, but fewer than half the women in whom the cancer has spread beyond the womb and into the pelvis will live beyond five years. The end result of this work will be a programme available on a GP’s computer which will have drop down options for responses that will generate a personalised 10-year and lifetime risk of womb cancer.

This tool is being developed by Dr Kitson, a National Institute of Health Research Academic Clinical Lecturer and Sub-specialty trainee in Gynaecological Oncology at the division of cancer services at Manchester University (based at St Mary’s Hospital). We will keep you informed as this important project progresses.