| Description | Statistics relating to the waiting times of urgently referred patients diagnosed with cancer during July-September 2008.
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| ISBN | (Web Only) |
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| Website Publication Date | February 17, 2009 |
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Table 5: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During July-September 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) |
| Scotland | 109 | 92 | 84.4% | 2 | 241 | 37 | 71 |
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| NOSCAN | 28 | 24 | 85.7% | 2 | 241 | 43 | 86 |
| Grampian | 8 | 4 | 50.0% | 2 | 241 | 62 | n/a |
| Highland | 5 | 5 | 100.0% | 8 | 51 | 25 | 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 | 14 | 14 | 100.0% | 14 | 60 | 40 | 59 |
| Western Isles | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 30 | 30 | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 26 | 26 | 100.0% | 9 | 62 | 29 | 57 |
| Borders | 4 | 4 | 100.0% | 29 | 56 | 35 | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 23 | 23 | n/a | n/a |
| Fife | 8 | 8 | 100.0% | 9 | 59 | 33 | n/a |
| Lothian | 13 | 13 | 100.0% | 12 | 62 | 28 | 60 |
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| WOSCAN | 55 | 42 | 76.4% | 5 | 126 | 41 | 81 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 11 | 9 | 81.8% | 22 | 126 | 32 | 113 |
| Forth Valley | 6 | 4 | 66.7% | 38 | 91 | 61 | n/a |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 23 | 18 | 78.3% | 5 | 98 | 33 | 76 |
| Lanarkshire | 15 | 11 | 73.3% | 12 | 82 | 41 | 78 |
# 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.