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Cancer survival in England lags behind most European countries, due partly to lower rates of early stage diagnosis. We report the protocol for the evaluation of a multidisciplinary diagnostic centre-based pathway for the investigation of 'low-risk but not no-risk' cancer symptoms called the Suspected CANcer (SCAN) pathway. SCAN is a new standard of care being implemented in Oxfordshire; one of a number of pathways implemented during the second wave of the Accelerate, Coordinate, Evaluate (ACE) programme, an initiative which aims to improve England's cancer survival rates through establishing effective routes to early diagnosis.Methods and analysis
To evaluate SCAN, we are collating a prospective database of patients referred onto the pathway by their general pr"],"journal":["BMJ open"],"pubmed_title":["The Suspected CANcer (SCAN) pathway: protocol for evaluating a new standard of care for patients with non-specific symptoms of cancer."],"pmcid":["PMC5780707"],"funding_grant_id":["DRF-2015-08-185","SPCR-011"],"pubmed_authors":["Hayles S","Kaveney Z","Gleeson F","Kelly S","Lee J","Gould I","Abel L","Friedemann Smith C","Mackay T","Anthony S","Lasserson D","Phillips JA","Oke J","Nicholson BD"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The Suspected CANcer (SCAN) pathway: protocol for evaluating a new standard of care for patients with non-specific symptoms of cancer.","description":"Introduction
Cancer survival in England lags behind most European countries, due partly to lower rates of early stage diagnosis. We report the protocol for the evaluation of a multidisciplinary diagnostic centre-based pathway for the investigation of 'low-risk but not no-risk' cancer symptoms called the Suspected CANcer (SCAN) pathway. SCAN is a new standard of care being implemented in Oxfordshire; one of a number of pathways implemented during the second wave of the Accelerate, Coordinate, Evaluate (ACE) programme, an initiative which aims to improve England's cancer survival rates through establishing effective routes to early diagnosis.Methods and analysis
To evaluate SCAN, we are collating a prospective database of patients referred onto the pathway by their general pr","dates":{"release":"2018-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2018 Jan","modification":"2026-07-15T15:06:28.401Z","creation":"2019-03-26T22:43:33Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5780707","cross_references":{"pubmed":["29358427"],"doi":["10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018168"]}}