| 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 4: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During January-March 2008 with Lung Cancer
| 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 | 556 | 528 | 95.0% | 0 | 141 | 31 | 58 |
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| NOSCAN | 134 | 131 | 97.8% | 0 | 71 | 27 | 51 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Highland) | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 8 | 47 | n/a | n/a |
| Grampian | 55 | 54 | 98.2% | 0 | 70 | 26 | 49 |
| Highland | 27 | 27 | 100.0% | 1 | 56 | 26 | 47 |
| Orkney | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shetland | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 31 | 31 | n/a | n/a |
| Tayside | 49 | 47 | 95.9% | 5 | 71 | 29 | 54 |
| Western Isles | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 171 | 165 | 96.5% | 0 | 105 | 31 | 58 |
| Borders | 11 | 11 | 100.0% | 1 | 54 | 29 | 52 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 11 | 10 | 90.9% | 10 | 105 | 40 | 94 |
| Fife | 59 | 57 | 96.6% | 2 | 68 | 34 | 58 |
| Lothian | 90 | 87 | 96.7% | 0 | 84 | 28 | 59 |
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| WOSCAN | 251 | 232 | 92.4% | 0 | 141 | 34 | 61 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Greater Glasgow) | 37 | 37 | 100.0% | 7 | 61 | 35 | 55 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 23 | 23 | 100.0% | 0 | 59 | 28 | 57 |
| Forth Valley | 24 | 23 | 95.8% | 2 | 63 | 32 | 62 |
| Lanarkshire | 48 | 46 | 95.8% | 0 | 76 | 28 | 59 |
| Greater Glasgow | 119 | 103 | 86.6% | 2 | 141 | 38 | 75 |
# 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.