| 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 9: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During January-March 2008 with Urological 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 | 332 | 317 | 95.5% | 0 | 200 | 39 | 60 |
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| NOSCAN | 80 | 77 | 96.3% | 4 | 97 | 43 | 58 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Highland) | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | 10 | 48 | 28 | n/a |
| Grampian | 35 | 32 | 91.4% | 4 | 97 | 39 | 69 |
| Highland | 20 | 20 | 100.0% | 16 | 62 | 51 | 61 |
| Orkney | - | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shetland | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 26 | 26 | n/a | n/a |
| Tayside | 20 | 20 | 100.0% | 10 | 57 | 41 | 51 |
| Western Isles | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 29 | 29 | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 81 | 76 | 93.8% | 2 | 200 | 36 | 62 |
| Borders | 9 | 8 | 88.9% | 9 | 69 | 48 | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 9 | 8 | 88.9% | 19 | 86 | 43 | n/a |
| Fife | 21 | 20 | 95.2% | 3 | 128 | 33 | 62 |
| Lothian | 42 | 40 | 95.2% | 2 | 200 | 32 | 60 |
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| WOSCAN | 171 | 164 | 95.9% | 0 | 106 | 37 | 61 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Greater Glasgow) | 22 | 21 | 95.5% | 2 | 74 | 23 | 58 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 27 | 27 | 100.0% | 6 | 62 | 42 | 62 |
| Forth Valley | 38 | 38 | 100.0% | 0 | 61 | 43 | 59 |
| Lanarkshire | 35 | 34 | 97.1% | 2 | 106 | 32 | 55 |
| Greater Glasgow | 49 | 44 | 89.8% | 3 | 104 | 40 | 67 |
# 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.