| 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 6: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During January-March 2008 with Melanoma 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 | 84 | 77 | 91.7% | 0 | 171 | 26 | 61 |
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| NOSCAN | 22 | 20 | 90.9% | 0 | 112 | 28 | 81 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Highland) | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 3 | 28 | n/a | n/a |
| Grampian | 9 | 7 | 77.8% | 0 | 112 | 40 | n/a |
| Highland | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 21 | 42 | n/a | n/a |
| Orkney | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shetland | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Tayside | 8 | 8 | 100.0% | 0 | 32 | 21 | n/a |
| Western Isles | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 33 | 33 | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 22 | 21 | 95.5% | 0 | 98 | 21 | 59 |
| Borders | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 21 | 21 | n/a | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Fife | 11 | 10 | 90.9% | 0 | 98 | 14 | 90 |
| Lothian | 10 | 10 | 100.0% | 0 | 49 | 24 | 49 |
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| WOSCAN | 40 | 36 | 90.0% | 0 | 171 | 28 | 65 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Greater Glasgow) | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 7 | 12 | n/a | n/a |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 6 | 6 | 100.0% | 10 | 38 | 17 | n/a |
| Forth Valley | 7 | 6 | 85.7% | 14 | 70 | 36 | n/a |
| Lanarkshire | 10 | 9 | 90.0% | 0 | 66 | 14 | 64 |
| Greater Glasgow | 15 | 13 | 86.7% | 12 | 171 | 40 | 138 |
# 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.