Ethnic and racialised inequalities in cancer services: evidence review

Appendices

Appendix A: Acknowledgements

Research Advisory Group

With thanks to the following Research Advisory Group members for their advice and comments on draft versions of this review. The final version is the sole responsibility of the Scottish Government.

Cancer Research UK

Samantha Harrison (Head of Strategic Evidence)

Public Health Scotland

Dr. Rishma Maini (Consultant in Public Health Medicine)

University of Edinburgh, Usher Institute

Dr. Gwenetta Curry (Reader in Race, Ethnicity, and Health)

University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Primary Health Sciences

Dr. Tanvi Rai (Senior Researcher)

Scottish Government:

Health and Social Care Analysis: Dr. Jane Borland, Dr. Karen Munro, Dr. Nadine Thomas, Dr. Rachel Thwaites

Racialised Health Inequalities and Health Equity Policy Team: Andrea Lenssen, Dr. Rahima Kashim

Cancer Research UK

Dr Lyndsy Ambler

Remi Looi-Somoye

Voluntary Health Scotland

VHS is the national intermediary and network for voluntary health organisations in Scotland. They issued a call for evidence in their members’ newsletter: some responses were received of which some were included.

Appendix B: Search Strategy

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

Timeframe: 2010 – 2025

Language: English

Country of Origin: European Countries participating in the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP): Scotland, Rest of the UK (England, Wales, Northern Ireland), Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Sweden.

Publication types/ sources:

i. Primary research published in academic journals.

ii. Reviews: including literature reviews, scoping reviews, evidence reviews, evidence syntheses, systematic reviews, meta-analyses.

iii. Grey literature from:

• Government publications (national/ sub-national).
• Non-governmental organisation publications (think-tanks, third sector, other stakeholder groups).
• Other sources.

Databases searched:

• KandE (SG Library search platform which covers a range of databases)
• IDOX Knowledge Network
• ProQuest
• Policy Commons
• Google Scholar

Search Terms

i. Used in the initial search for primary research relevant to Scotland only:

cancer OR tumour OR neoplasm

AND

prevent* OR screen* OR diagnos* OR detect* OR treat* OR support OR palliative OR “end of life” OR access OR care OR experience OR outcome* OR surviv*

AND

Ethnic* OR racial* OR race OR racis* OR “people of colour” OR POC OR BME OR BAME OR Discrim* OR “Cultur* competen*” OR transculturalism OR “cultur* awareness” OR “cultur* sensitiv*” OR “cultur* knowledge” OR Ireland OR Irish OR Poland OR

AND

Equal* OR inequal* OR equit* OR inequit* OR disparit* OR experience*

AND

Scotland OR Scottish (Initial search for primary research relevant to Scotland).

ii. Used in the search for Evidence Reviews:

all of the above plus:

Review AND systematic OR literature OR evidence OR rapid