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Jon Lacy-Colson: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Jon Lacy-Colson
consultant colorectal surgeon and chief investigator for the TRIOMIC trial
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Quoted in the press, across 2 topics since 8 Dec 2025
02 Quoted on · 2 of 29 topics
Jon Lacy-Colson: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- consultant colorectal surgeon and chief investigator for the TRIOMIC trial
- Quoted on
- Cancer, NHS waiting lists
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 23 Aug 2026
- First quoted
- 8 Dec 2025
04 The signal · where Jon Lacy-Colson sits on cancer
Regularly cited
One of the voices most often quoted in the press on cancer.
Placed by press coverage on this topic only, not across all topics.
Prof Peter JohnsonClinicianNational Clinical Director for Cancer, NHS EnglandLeading
Michelle MitchellSector leaderChief Executive, Cancer Research UKLeading
Professor Victoria Tzortziou BrownClinicianChair of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)Leading
Professor Sam BehjatiAcademicProfessor of Paediatrics; Head of the Department of Paediatrics; Director of the Cambridge Children's Research Institute, University of Cambridge (Department of Paediatrics)Regularly cited
Dr Anna WengerAcademicPostdoctoral Fellow (Behjati Group), Wellcome Sanger InstituteRegularly cited- Jon Lacy-ColsonClinicianconsultant colorectal surgeon and chief investigator for the TRIOMIC trialRegularly cited
- Mamas MamasAcademicprofessor of cardiology at Keele UniversityRegularly cited
Kristian HelinAcademicChief Executive and President, The Institute of Cancer Research, LondonRegularly cited
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05 On the record · press
What Jon Lacy-Colson has said
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- ludlowadvertiser.co.uk
- shropshirestar.com
- bbc.com
Where Jon Lacy-Colson has been quoted
- Lifesaving cancer trial transforms waiting timesludlowadvertiser.co.uk · 23 Aug 2026
- How Shropshire cancer trial is helping improve waiting times for patientsshropshirestar.com · 20 Mar 2026
- How is Telford community diagnostic centre helping NHS?bbc.com · 7 Mar 2026
- Cancer trial set to expand after receiving more fundingludlowadvertiser.co.uk · 12 Dec 2025
- Shropshire cancer trial study gets extra funding boostshropshirestar.com · 8 Dec 2025
How we found the articles that name Jon Lacy-Colson: we searched news for these terms, by topic. Terms for 2 topics
Cancer
- cancer
- cancer treatment
- cancer screening
- cancer waiting times
- oncology
- chemotherapy
- radiotherapy
- cancer diagnosis
Also searched with “cancer” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Cancer
NHS waiting lists
- NHS waiting list
- waiting list
- elective waiting times
- elective recovery
- elective backlog
- waiting list backlog
- referral to treatment
- RTT
Also searched with “NHS waiting list” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for NHS waiting lists
Verbatim
“To be shortlisted for this prestigious award is fantastic. Working alongside Origin Sciences on this trial has made so much difference to the experience of our patients who are being seen sooner during what can be a very difficult time.”
“It is phenomenally exciting to be at the forefront of the development of new diagnostic technology in colorectal cancer. It will be transformative in the cancer pathway.”
“the biggest development in colorectal cancer diagnosis for a long, long time”
“This project gives us the capacity to see all patients who are referred on the colorectal cancer urgent suspected pathway.”
“This project gives us the capacity to see all patients who are referred on the colorectal cancer urgent suspected pathway. Patients will also get an answer quicker about whether they need a colonoscopy.”
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Doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and other registered clinicians quoted in a clinical capacity. Citations are counted by an automated scan of UK press coverage and may be incomplete. Roles, biographies and contact details are researched and human-reviewed before they appear here; anything not yet reviewed is simply absent rather than shown unverified. This profile was last updated on 13 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.