Survey: improve diagnosis of ovarian cancer using information about shopping habits

[OvacomeSupport]

Hello

We posted a few weeks ago to ask for your help with some research we are helping with, led by a PhD candidate called Elizabeth Dolan. Thank you to all of you who have taken part so far. The aim is to improve diagnosis of ovarian cancer using information about people’s shopping habits.

The idea behind the research is that people may be buying health products such as those for digestive health or pain relief before they realise that their symptoms could be caused by ovarian cancer. The research is to look for patterns of shopping that could suggest that someone needs investigations for ovarian cancer. Elizabeth plans to gather data from loyalty cards and then use machine learning (a method of programming computers to learn from data) to find these patterns. It is hoped this will help people and their healthcare professionals to recognise the signs earlier.

Elizabeth needs people with an ovarian cancer diagnosis to provide information about the symptoms they experienced and any health products that they bought in response before they were diagnosed. If you would like to help you can complete the survey at:

nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac...

When enough people have completed the survey, the research will be able to progress to the next stage.

Thank you very much for your help. If you have any questions, please do get in touch with me either through the forum or on 0800 008 7054 or email [e-mail]

Best wishes

Julia

Ovacome support

[thomas62]

Hi Julia, Sorry can't help. I was one of those who didn't have any symptoms at all and my cancer was found incidentally. Gwen x

[OvacomeSupport Partner My Ovacome Team in reply to thomas62]

Hi Gwen

Thank you for your reply. The questions in the survey have an option to answer that you didn’t experience symptoms. These responses are also valuable data for the purposes of the research, so if you’re interested in participating please take a look at the survey and complete it if you would like to.

Many thanks again and best wishes

Julia

[thomas62 in reply to OvacomeSupport]

Hi Julia,

Will take a look at the survey and complete it. Many thanks. Gwen

[Cropcrop]

Done. ❤️Xx Jane

[OvacomeSupport Partner My Ovacome Team in reply to Cropcrop]

Hello Jane

Thank you very much for your help with this research.

Best wishes

Julia

[Joanie12]

Hi, I've tried to log on to the site but it won't let me saying it is not a safe site!! Perhaps it is my iPad so I'm sorry, I would have completed questionnaire.

[OvacomeSupport Partner My Ovacome Team in reply to Joanie12]

Hi Joanie12

Thank you very much for offering to complete the survey. I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble accessing it. I'll look into this for you. Please could you let me know which browser you're using and what the error message is saying?

Best wishes

Julia

[Joanie12 in reply to OvacomeSupport]

Hi Julia! I use chrome to access sites, when I press the address for the survey it says, "your connection is not private and could be hacked" it is a private iPad I use at home, nobody else uses it so couldn't understand so I just left it. Don't know if this helps.

[OvacomeSupport Partner My Ovacome Team]

Hello Joanie12

Thank you for your reply. I've contacted the researcher, and the survey website is working. Perhaps Apple Support would be able to help with the error message that you're seeing? Thank you again for your interest in the research. If there's anything that we can help with, please get in touch with us.

Best wishes

Julia