Bright, Chloe J.
Brentnall, Adam R.
Wooldrage, Kate
Myles, Jonathon
Sasieni, Peter
Duffy, Stephen W.
Article History
Received: 28 June 2019
Revised: 7 January 2020
Accepted: 17 January 2020
First Online: 10 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Confidentiality Advisory Group of the Health Research Authority grants Public Health England permission (via Section 251 of the NHS Act 2006) to collect information on cancer patients for health improvement and service provision purposes, without the need to seek individual patient consent.
: Not applicable.
: Data for this study is based on patient-level information collected by the NHS, as part of the care and support of cancer patients. The data is collated, maintained and quality assured by the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service, which is part of Public Health England.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Public Health England is a UK government body. There is no funding to declare in relation to this study. Stephen Duffy, Peter Sasieni and Jonathan Myles contributed to this as part of the programme of the Policy Research Unit in Cancer Awareness, Screening and Early Diagnosis, which receives funding for a research programme from the Department of Health Policy Research Programme. It is a collaboration between researchers from seven institutions (Queen Mary University of London, UCL, King’s College London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Hull York Medical School, Durham University and Peninsula Medical School).