| Description | Statistics relating to the waiting times of urgently referred patients diagnosed with cancer during January-March 2008. Also 2007 cancer waiting times statisics for breast cancer, acute leukaemia and childhood cancers
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| ISBN | (Web Only) |
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| Website Publication Date | August 19, 2008 |
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Table 8: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During January-March 2008 with Upper GI Cancers
| Area of diagnosis | Number of eligible urgent referrals# | Number treated within 2 months (62 days) of referral | Proportion treated within 62 days of urgent referral | Minimum wait (Days) | Maximum wait (Days) | Median wait* (Days) | 90th Percentile** (Days) |
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| Scotland | 279 | 253 | 90.7% | 0 | 133 | 30 | 61 |
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| NOSCAN | 79 | 74 | 93.7% | 0 | 84 | 30 | 61 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Highland) | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | 29 | 80 | n/a | n/a |
| Grampian | 28 | 28 | 100.0% | 2 | 60 | 35 | 53 |
| Highland | 10 | 9 | 90.0% | 4 | 84 | 26 | 82 |
| Orkney | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shetland | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Tayside | 36 | 33 | 91.7% | 0 | 76 | 24 | 63 |
| Western Isles | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | 4 | 50 | 46 | n/a |
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| SCAN | 83 | 77 | 92.8% | 2 | 104 | 25 | 59 |
| Borders | 7 | 7 | 100.0% | 8 | 58 | 21 | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 9 | 8 | 88.9% | 4 | 104 | 17 | n/a |
| Fife | 34 | 31 | 91.2% | 3 | 85 | 25 | 67 |
| Lothian | 33 | 31 | 93.9% | 2 | 80 | 27 | 59 |
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| WOSCAN | 117 | 102 | 87.2% | 0 | 133 | 35 | 65 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Greater Glasgow) | 19 | 18 | 94.7% | 5 | 84 | 39 | 59 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 27 | 23 | 85.2% | 0 | 83 | 27 | 66 |
| Forth Valley | 7 | 6 | 85.7% | 2 | 75 | 26 | n/a |
| Lanarkshire | 24 | 21 | 87.5% | 5 | 80 | 32 | 68 |
| Greater Glasgow | 40 | 34 | 85.0% | 0 | 133 | 36 | 66 |
# Excludes patients; who died prior to receiving treatment, who refused treatment, with a patient induced non-clinical delay, who had co-morbidities, for clinical reasons and initially referred to an other non-cancer specialty.
* Medians have only been calculated where there are three or more patients with recorded referral and treatment dates.
** 90th percentiles have only been calculated where there are ten or more patients with recorded referral and treatment dates.
'-' Zero value
n/a: Not applicable due to small numbers.
Cancer waiting times statistics are subject to a programme of quality improvement focusing on consistency and coverage.
These improvements need to be taken in to account when making comparisons on quarter on quarter performance.