UK National Screening Committee position statement on evidence required for multicancer detection tests
Sarah Batson, Sian Taylor-Phillips, Anne Mackie, Rosalind Given-Wilson, Steve Halligan, Allan Hackshaw, Tom Callender, Chris Hyde, Katherine Payne, Cristina Visintin, David Thompson, D Gareth Evans, Mike Richards, Bethany Shinkins · 2026
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Sarah Batson, Bethany Shinkins, and colleagues set out a 2026 position statement from the UK National Screening Committee on multicancer detection tests. Such tests promise to spot several cancers from one blood, urine, stool, or imaging sample. Several products are in development, and a large English trial is already testing one blood-based version in screening.
Because screening programmes are hard to reverse once launched, the committee lists the proof any test must supply before adoption. Considerations span disease burden, test accuracy, benefits and harms, cost effectiveness, and whether the health system can deliver the programme fairly. The statement gives policy makers a shared yardstick for judging claims made by test developers.
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| CREATOR | Sarah Batson, Sian Taylor-Phillips, Anne Mackie, Rosalind Given-Wilson, Steve Halligan, Allan Hackshaw, Tom Callender, Chris Hyde, Katherine Payne, Cristina Visintin, David Thompson, D Gareth Evans, Mike Richards, Bethany Shinkins |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |