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UK’s National Screening Committee endorses digital pathology for cancer screening

BMJ 2023; 383 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p2990 (Published 29 December 2023) Cite this as: BMJ 2023;383:p2990
  1. Elisabeth Mahase
  1. The BMJ

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has backed the use of digital pathology as an alternative to light microscopy for the review of cancer screening histopathology slides.1

Digital pathology enables pathologists to review glass histopathology slides digitally on a computer screen rather than through a microscope.

The UK NSC has emphasised …

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