Screening Research Priorities
Published on 21 March 2024
The Research and Innovation Group works closely with stakeholders, including Screening Programmes, to identify research priorities. We review these priorities in January of each year and publish them here.
2024 Research Priorities
Generic:
- Optimising uptake in all existing screening programmes
- Improving informed choice in all existing screening programmes
- Minimising inequalities in all existing screening programmes
- Minimising the harms of screening
- Improving the sensitivity and specificity of tests in existing screening programmes
- Exploring the use of AI and other new technologies in screening
- Stratified screening
- Targeted screening
- Attitudes to screening in remote and rural settings
- Implementation costs in boards
Specific:
- Lung cancer screening
- Prostate cancer screening
- Ovarian cancer screening
- Colonoscopy uptake in screen-positive individuals in the bowel screening programme
- Stratified screening utilising numerical FIT results in the bowel screening programme
- Cervical Self Sampling
- AI in Breast Cancer Screening
- AI in DES
- AI in Cervical Cancer Screening
- Research into fundus photography in DES
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