Jessica Bate
jessicabate.bsky.social
Jessica Bate
@jessicabate.bsky.social
Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Southampton Children’s Hospital & Hon Associate Professor, University of Southampton, NIHR SCPRA holder
Research interests: supportive cancer care, health inequalities
Reposted by Jessica Bate
Survival rates for children with cancer are improving - but evidence suggests there are ethnic inequalities.

📊 To fix this, @uhsft.bsky.social's @jessicabate.bsky.social is calling for better data on ethnicity to improve outcomes.

She explains more in @bmj.com 👇
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Ethnicity and childhood cancer survival
We need high quality data to analyse outcomes Evidence suggests ethnic inequalities in cancer outcomes among children in the UK. A study of children with cancer between 1981 and 1996 showed no signif...
www.bmj.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Read our editorial on ethnicity and childhood cancer survival @bmj.com We need better data to analyse outcomes. @rgfeltbower.bsky.social @neil-r.bsky.social doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
Ethnicity and childhood cancer survival
We need high quality data to analyse outcomes Evidence suggests ethnic inequalities in cancer outcomes among children in the UK. A study of children with cancer between 1981 and 1996 showed no signif...
doi.org
July 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Research sandpit event Friday 7 March for parents & children and young people with experience of cancer to talk about central lines. Near Kings Cross station, London. Come along and share your views! Travel expenses provided. Contact info@cclg.org #ppi @cclguk.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
@ethnichealthres.bsky.social So important to collect equality monitoring data. How do we know what the gaps are unless the right questions are asked? Children must be included too. @cclguk.bsky.social #equalityinresearchmatters
February 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM