{"entity":{"id":"idea-prev-live-stage-dashboard","kind":"idea","name":"A live national dashboard of stage at diagnosis as the scorecard for early detection","aka":[],"tldr":"You cannot manage what you do not measure quickly. Publishing stage at diagnosis by cancer and region every quarter, not years later, would show whether detection efforts are working.","summary":"Registry stage data typically lag two to three years. Propose near-real-time staging capture from pathology and multidisciplinary-team systems feeding a public dashboard, with region-level early-stage proportions and route to diagnosis, so screening and symptom-pathway interventions can be evaluated within a year. England's Rapid Cancer Registration Dataset shows feasibility.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Bottleneck evidence (The hardest cancers are found late): Crosby et al., Early detection of cancer (Science 2022)","url":"https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay9040"}],"tags":[],"related":["seer"],"cancers":[],"sections":["early-detection"],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":["stage-shift","tnm-staging"],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":["b-early-detection","b-data-silos"],"keyPapers":["paper-crosby-science"],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"hypothesis":"Quarterly stage reporting with under six months' lag is achievable for at least 90% of cases and shortens the evaluation cycle of detection interventions from five years to under two.","rationale":"Fast feedback is what let COVID dashboards drive policy; cancer detection has no equivalent.","test":"Build in one national registry; compare completeness and lag against gold-standard registration.","maturity":"early-clinical","actor":"data","cost":"small","horizonYears":2},"route":"/ideas/idea-prev-live-stage-dashboard/","neighbours":{"collection":[{"id":"seer","kind":"collection","name":"SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results)","route":"/collections/seer/"}],"section":[{"id":"early-detection","kind":"section","name":"Early Detection & Screening","route":"/fronts/early-detection/"}],"term":[{"id":"stage-shift","kind":"term","name":"Stage shift","route":"/terms/stage-shift/"},{"id":"tnm-staging","kind":"term","name":"TNM staging","route":"/terms/tnm-staging/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-data-silos","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Data silos","route":"/bottlenecks/b-data-silos/"},{"id":"b-early-detection","kind":"bottleneck","name":"The hardest cancers are found late","route":"/bottlenecks/b-early-detection/"}],"paper":[{"id":"paper-crosby-science","kind":"paper","name":"Early detection of cancer","route":"/key-papers/paper-crosby-science/"}]}}