| 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 5: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During January-March 2008 with Lymphoma 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 | 104 | 93 | 89.4% | 6 | 125 | 39 | 63 |
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| NOSCAN | 29 | 26 | 89.7% | 6 | 78 | 32 | 63 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Highland) | 1 | - | 0.0% | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Grampian | 13 | 11 | 84.6% | 6 | 78 | 22 | 76 |
| Highland | 8 | 8 | 100.0% | 15 | 62 | 34 | 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 | 7 | 7 | 100.0% | 7 | 55 | 34 | n/a |
| Western Isles | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 31 | 28 | 90.3% | 12 | 94 | 44 | 64 |
| Borders | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | 30 | 71 | 44 | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | 26 | 60 | 41 | n/a |
| Fife | 9 | 9 | 100.0% | 13 | 55 | 40 | n/a |
| Lothian | 16 | 14 | 87.5% | 12 | 94 | 47 | 74 |
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| WOSCAN | 44 | 39 | 88.6% | 8 | 125 | 38 | 66 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Greater Glasgow) | 7 | 7 | 100.0% | 20 | 54 | 30 | n/a |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 8 | 7 | 87.5% | 14 | 125 | 32 | n/a |
| Forth Valley | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | 31 | 50 | 48 | n/a |
| Lanarkshire | 7 | 6 | 85.7% | 8 | 63 | 57 | n/a |
| Greater Glasgow | 19 | 16 | 84.2% | 17 | 103 | 42 | 83 |
# 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.