Early cancer diagnosis: reaching targets across whole populations amidst setbacks

British Journal on Cancer | Editorial | 9 February 2021
Authors: Valerie McCormack & Ajay Aggarwal

Summary


'Early diagnosis of cancer, followed by timely and appropriate therapy, are the cornerstones of the secondary prevention of cancer, thus the NHS has set a 2028 target to achieve 75% early stage (TNM I/II) at cancer diagnosis. In this context, Barclay et al. evaluated overall, sex, age and deprivation-group-specific progress towards this target based on 202,000 cancer patients diagnosis in 2015. Herein, we discuss their findings which form a valuable pre-COVID-19 pandemic status. We discuss the impact of the pandemic and the efforts being made in innovative early detection and diagnosis research.'

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41416-021-01276-2