Dr Melissa Barlow

Melissa’s research aims to improve early cancer diagnosis in primary care, with a particular focus on evaluating diagnostic performance of tests and understanding health inequalities that influence diagnostic pathways and outcomes.

Her current research projects include:

• Evaluating the rates at which patients from different ethnic groups undergo primary care blood tests and how this can affect cancer prediction
• Assessing pre-diagnostic full blood count trends before a leukaemia diagnosis 

Research Skills

• Management, preparation and analysis of large healthcare datasets including CPRD, HES APC, NCRAS and the UK Biobank
• Diagnostic accuracy studies
• Regression modelling
• Complex statistical analysis using Stata
• Systematic reviews and meta-analysis