Maringe, Camille http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8739-9565
Pashayan, Nora
Rubio, Francisco Javier
Ploubidis, George
Duffy, Stephen W.
Rachet, Bernard
Raine, Rosalind
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cancer Research UK (C7923/A18525)
The UK Department of Health (Policy Research Unit in Cancer Awareness, Screening and Early diagnosis)
Public Health Research Programme (Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC))
Article History
Received: 25 January 2018
Accepted: 2 May 2018
First Online: 31 May 2018
Ethical approval and consent to participate
: We obtained the statutory approvals required for this research from the Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG) of the Health Research Authority (HRA): PIAG 1–05(c)/2007; ECC 1–05(a)/2010, and the ethical approval were updated 6 April 2017 (REC 13/LO/0610) from the Research Ethics Committee (REC) of the Health Research Authority (HRA). We used previously collected data (National Cancer Registry data): No consent to participate was sought from patients.
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