Predictive value of abnormal blood tests for detecting cancer in primary care patients with nonspecific abdominal symptoms: A population-based cohort study of 477,870 patients in England

• Meena Rafiq ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Meena.rafiq@ucl.ac.uk

  Affiliations Epidemiology of Cancer Healthcare & Outcomes (ECHO) Group, Department of Behavioural Science, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care (IEHC), UCL, London, United Kingdom, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Research, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1837-1542

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• Cristina Renzi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Epidemiology of Cancer Healthcare & Outcomes (ECHO) Group, Department of Behavioural Science, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care (IEHC), UCL, London, United Kingdom, Faculty of Medicine, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3845-9493

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• Becky White,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology of Cancer Healthcare & Outcomes (ECHO) Group, Department of Behavioural Science, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care (IEHC), UCL, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0643-7890

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• Nadine Zakkak,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology of Cancer Healthcare & Outcomes (ECHO) Group, Department of Behavioural Science, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care (IEHC), UCL, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4155-7756

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• Brian Nicholson,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Georgios Lyratzopoulos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology of Cancer Healthcare & Outcomes (ECHO) Group, Department of Behavioural Science, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care (IEHC), UCL, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2873-7421

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• Matthew Barclay

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology of Cancer Healthcare & Outcomes (ECHO) Group, Department of Behavioural Science, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care (IEHC), UCL, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1148-1922

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