Paige Prostate for prostate cancer

Equality considerations

NICE is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, eliminating unlawful discrimination and fostering good relations between people with particular protected characteristics and others.

Paige Prostate is intended for people that are being screened for prostate cancer by prostate needle core biopsy. Older people and people with an African‑Caribbean and African family background are at higher risk of developing prostate cancer. Some people may not identify as men but have a prostate. Disability, age, race and gender reassignment are protected characteristics under the Equality Act (2010).

Paige reports they have unpublished data that examined performance across ethnicities and concluded no performance differences.