| 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 11: Waiting-Times Statistics for Diagnosis to Treatment by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During 2007 with Breast Cancer
| Area of diagnosis | Number of Eligible Referrals# | Number treated within 1 month (31 Days) of diagnosis | Proportion treated within 31 days of diagnosis | Minimum Wait (Days) | Maximum Wait (Days) | Median Wait (Days)* | 90th percentile (Days)** |
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| Scotland | 3,712 | 3,088 | 83.2% | 0 | 84 | 20 | 37 |
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| NOSCAN | 944 | 637 | 67.5% | 0 | 84 | 27 | 48 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Highland) | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Grampian | 363 | 212 | 58.4% | 0 | 84 | 29 | 50 |
| Highland | 210 | 130 | 61.9% | 0 | 73 | 28 | 50 |
| Orkney | 4 | 3 | 75.0% | 12 | 40 | 22 | n/a |
| Shetland | 7 | 6 | 85.7% | 12 | 36 | 23 | n/a |
| Tayside | 353 | 282 | 79.9% | 0 | 79 | 22 | 40 |
| Western Isles | 7 | 4 | 57.1% | 17 | 45 | 31 | n/a |
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| SCAN | 1,054 | 898 | 85.2% | 0 | 72 | 21 | 34 |
| Borders | 50 | 49 | 98.0% | 0 | 34 | 15 | 27 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 122 | 120 | 98.4% | 0 | 62 | 13 | 22 |
| Fife | 166 | 151 | 91.0% | 0 | 56 | 22 | 31 |
| Lothian | 716 | 578 | 80.7% | 0 | 72 | 22 | 36 |
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| WOSCAN | 1,714 | 1,553 | 90.6% | 0 | 76 | 18 | 31 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Greater Glasgow) | 213 | 208 | 97.7% | 0 | 57 | 14 | 26 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 276 | 233 | 84.4% | 0 | 75 | 19 | 39 |
| Forth Valley | 177 | 160 | 90.4% | 0 | 76 | 19 | 31 |
| Lanarkshire | 272 | 256 | 94.1% | 0 | 59 | 15 | 29 |
| Greater Glasgow | 776 | 696 | 89.7% | 0 | 72 | 20 | 31 |
# 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 year on year performance.