Cancer in Intellectual Disabilities   Seattle club poster presentation   Laura Ward
Channel: Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory
Date: 2023-11-29

This short video accompanies the Seattle Club 2023 conference poster presentation by Dr Laura Ward. This video describes research into cancers in adults with intellectual disabilities, describing the types of cancers they are diagnosed with and the types of cancers they are likely to die from. We used electronic health records and data from the whole of Scotland's population with intellectual disabilities. Our findings provide important evidence that healthcare professionals and policy makers need to begin to address the cancer-related healthcare inequalities experienced by people with intellectual disabilities.  For more information about this research, please visit our website via  https://bit.ly/3Gjxxji