Cairns, Benjamin J.
Davidson, Dominique M.
Smithson, Sarah F.
Wilkie, Andrew O. M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2972-5481
Funding for this research was provided by:
Wellcome Trust (102731/Z/13/Z)
Article History
Received: 18 February 2026
Revised: 7 April 2026
Accepted: 21 April 2026
First Online: 4 May 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The original ethical approval for this work was provided by the Central Oxford Research Ethics Committee (COREC 2742). Written informed consent was obtained for the individuals in the re-contact study. The protocol was approved by the Medical Research Unit of the Office of Population Censuses & Surveys (OPCS), reference MR 461, and the British Medical Association Ethics Committee approved the provision of cancer registration data. From 2019 to present, storage and management of the data have been subject to a Data Sharing Agreement with NHS Digital (current ref. DARS-NIC-148106-PP9LS-v.4.4).