The International Alliance for Cancer Early Detection (ACED) is a partnership between Cancer Research UK, Canary Center at Stanford University, the University of Cambridge, the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, UCL and the University of Manchester.
Researchers believe that advancements in technologies will help to diagnose cancers at an early stage.
UK statistics indicate that five-year survival for six kinds of cancer is more than three times higher if these are diagnosed at the first stage, as the tumour tends to be small and localised, as opposed to stage four when the tumour tends to be larger and would have spread to surrounding tissues.
