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Thomas, Alan Hart
Gulliford, Dawn
Rolfe, Helena
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Hohmann, Matthias
Repperday, Chris
Sykes, Susan
Taylor, Sarah
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Craig, Angie
Dawson, James
Forbes, Sarah
Ryan, Helen
Turner, Rob
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Ahmad, Mush
Chung, Donna
Graham, David
Millar, Andrew
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Gleeson, Fergus
Hayles, Shelley
Kaveney, Zoe
Nicholson, Brian
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Article History
Received: 1 August 2019
Revised: 19 May 2020
Accepted: 4 June 2020
First Online: 6 July 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The ACE evaluation was classified as a service evaluation and was therefore not subject to ethics approval.
: Not applicable.
: Pseudoanonymised data were supplied by the Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Centres (MDC)—ACE (Cancer Research UK) is the custodian of the data on behalf of the MDCs and for the duration of the analysis—the data are not publicly available at present.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The ACE Programme (MDC) was a joint early diagnosis of cancer initiative between NHS England, Cancer Research UK and Macmillan Cancer Support. Funding for the Programme Management of the ACE Programme was provided by Cancer Research UK. S.W.D., D.V., W.H. and G.R. participated in this work as part of the responsive programme of the Policy Research Unit in Cancer Awareness, Screening and Early Diagnosis, which is funded by the Department of Health’s Policy Research Programme. The five MDC projects received programme funding to support the development and trial of pilot pathways in accordance with their status as ACE Programme sites.