PHE — ICT — Corporate — Cancer Screening_Quality Assurance and the Cancer Screening Programme

Descriptions

The chancellor masters and scholars of the University of Oxford will continue to acquire, link, clean, maintain and analyse data for the breast screening age extension trial (Age X) which includes over 4 000 000 women. The work for the trial involves updating the trial database with information about new entrants, follow-up of all participants by annual linkage to 7 separate NHS databases, amalgamating and checking data and data analysis. The work also involves co-ordinating annual meetings of the Trial management Group and the trial data monitoring and ethics group, maintaining the Age X website, preparing reports and regular liaison with Breast Screening IT and other staff. This work will be carried out by the co-ordinating centre for the Age X trial, which is currently based in the cancer epidemiology Unit (‘CEU’), Nuffield Department of Population Health (‘NDPH’) of the University of Oxford, where the data are held.