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Wendy Atkin
OBE FMedSci
Born
Wendy Sheila Green

(1947-04-05)5 April 1947
London, England
Died2 October 2018(2018-10-02) (aged 71)
Alma materUniversity of London (BPharm)
Columbia University (MPH)
University College London (PhD)
AwardsBengt Ihre Medal (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsEpidemiology
InstitutionsSt Mary's Hospital, London
Imperial College London
ThesisRisk of subsequent colon and rectal cancer after removal of adenomas from the rectosigmoid (1991)
Websiteimperial.ac.uk/people/w.atkin

Wendy Sheila Atkin

Gastrointestinal Epidemiology at Imperial College London
.

Early life and education

Aitken was born in London on 5 April 1947 to Gella (née Binder) and David Green.

PhD in 1991.[5][4]

Career and research

Atkin joined the Colorectal Cancer Unit at Cancer Research UK in St Mark's Hospital, and was made deputy director in 1997.[4] She was made a senior lecturer at Imperial College London in 1997, reader in 2000[citation needed] and professor in 2004.[citation needed]

From 1994 she worked with

bowel polyps from eating red meat.[21] They examined the incidence and mortality for the following 17 years, finding that people involved in the screening had a 41% lower mortality.[22][23][24] The bowel cancer screening test BowelScope can prevent 35% of bowel cancers.[25][26]

Atkin went on to create a

bowel cancer benefitted significantly from a follow-up colonoscopy.[31][32][33]

She served as an expert advisor for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Guidelines for Colonoscopic Surveillance.[4] She served on several advisory committees and boards.[13] She retired from Imperial College London in August 2018 and was made Emeritus Professor.[9] She died on 2 October 2018.[1][2]

Awards and honours

References

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  2. ^ a b Anon (2018). "Obituary: Professor Wendy Atkin". imperial.ac.uk.
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    ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4
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  4. ^ a b c d e "Home - Emeritus Professor Wendy Atkin". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  5. OCLC 940329454. Copac 34557568
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  6. ^ Jarvis, Martin (2015-11-24). "Jane Wardle obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  7. ^ Atkin, Wendy. "UK Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Screening" (PDF). National Archives. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-05-06. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  8. ^ "Bowel cancer success predicted". 2003-03-31. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  9. ^ a b "Professor Wendy Atkin Retires - Surgery and Cancer Blog". Surgery and Cancer Blog. 2018-08-29. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  10. ^ "Bowel test 'slashes cancer deaths'". nhs.uk. 2010-04-28. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  11. ^ "Bowel screening 'revolution' could slash cancer rate". New Scientist. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  12. S2CID 206927829
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  13. ^ a b "Honours and Memberships - Emeritus Professor Wendy Atkin". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  14. ^ "Boost for bowel cancer spending". BBC News. 2010-10-03. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  15. ^ "Inclusion of flexible sigmoidoscopy in the UK Bowel Cancer Screening Programme". www.ucl.ac.uk. 2014-12-12. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  16. ^ "REF Case study search". impact.ref.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  17. ^ "Bowel test 'slashes cancer deaths'". nhs.uk. 2010-04-28. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  18. ISSN 0307-1235
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  19. ^ a b c "Professor Wendy Atkin". acmedsci.ac.uk. Academy of Medical Sciences. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  20. PMID 16554333
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  21. ^ "EPIC-Norfolk Collaborators: Researchers". www.srl.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  22. PMID 28236467
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  23. ^ "A one-off bowel scope helps prevent bowel cancer, but it's taking time to reach everyone eligible". Cancer Research UK - Science blog. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  24. ^ "One-off bowel scope cuts cancer risk for at least 17 years". www.nihr.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  25. ^ "New screening test cuts bowel cancer risk by a third, study finds". The Guardian. Press Association. 2017-02-22. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  26. ^ Healthcare, Imperial College (2015-02-06), Bowel Cancer and the work of Professor Wendy Atkin at Imperial College London, retrieved 2018-10-06
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  28. ^ "CT scans are the best alternative to colonoscopy to investigate bowel cancer". Imperial News. Imperial News, Imperial College, London. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  29. ^ a b "Research - Emeritus Professor Wendy Atkin". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  30. ^ "Developing the bowel cancer screening programme – Imperial College London". The Russell Group. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  31. ^ "Follow-up colonoscopies associated with a significantly lower incidence of bowel cancer". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  32. ^ "Colonoscopy lowers rates of bowel cancer in some patients with intermediate risk polyps". Bowel Cancer UK. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  33. ^ "This one-off bowel cancer test could save thousands of lives". Good Housekeeping. 2017-02-24. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  34. ^ a b "Principal Investigator". www.csprg.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  35. ^ "Queen's birthday honours list 2013: OBE". The Guardian. 2013-06-14. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  36. ^ "Bowel Cancer Screening: 23 Nov 2011: House of Commons debates - TheyWorkForYou". TheyWorkForYou. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
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