Prof Richard Bryan: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- urologist turned academic who runs the University of Birmingham's bladder cancer research centre
- Quoted on
- Heart disease & stroke, Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“The results are very significant for clinical practice. Only 8% of patients in the study were ultimately diagnosed with bladder cancer, which highlights the challenge facing [health] services, where large numbers of patients currently enter the same urgent diagnostic pathway despite most not having cancer. Galeas is a promising and less invasive test that can be easier to administer and make testing and screening for bladder cancer far easier.”
What Prof Richard Bryan has said
“The new test was developed by Prof Richard Bryan, a urologist turned academic who runs the University of Birmingham's bladder cancer research centre, and his colleague Dr Doug Ward.”
urologist turned academic who runs the University of Birmingham's bladder cancer research centre · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · NHS hospitals adopt faster, more accurate at-home bladder cancer test ↗
Where Prof Richard Bryan has been quoted
- What went right this week: disease diagnoses ‘in seconds’, plus morepositive.news · 29 Sept 2026
- NHS hospitals adopt faster, more accurate at-home bladder cancer testtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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