| Description | Number and proportion of urgently referred cancer patients who began treatment within 62 days |
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| ISBN | (Web Only) |
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| Website Publication Date | May 19, 2009 |
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Table 1: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During October-December 2008 with Breast 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 | 450 | 445 | 98.9% | 5 | 90 | 39 | 55 |
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| NOSCAN | 114 | 109 | 95.6% | 8 | 90 | 47 | 62 |
| Grampian | 49 | 48 | 98.0% | 22 | 90 | 47 | 59 |
| Highland | 26 | 23 | 88.5% | 24 | 84 | 57 | 70 |
| Orkney | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 23 | 34 | n/a | n/a |
| Shetland | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 43 | 43 | n/a | n/a |
| Tayside | 35 | 34 | 97.1% | 8 | 65 | 47 | 59 |
| Western Isles | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 50 | 50 | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 127 | 127 | 100.0% | 9 | 60 | 35 | 50 |
| Borders | 11 | 11 | 100.0% | 25 | 60 | 36 | 59 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 17 | 17 | 100.0% | 9 | 54 | 17 | 49 |
| Fife | 22 | 22 | 100.0% | 28 | 59 | 37 | 53 |
| Lothian | 77 | 77 | 100.0% | 13 | 60 | 37 | 50 |
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| WOSCAN | 209 | 209 | 100.0% | 5 | 62 | 37 | 52 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 35 | 35 | 100.0% | 11 | 62 | 40 | 59 |
| Forth Valley | 24 | 24 | 100.0% | 18 | 62 | 43 | 57 |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 110 | 110 | 100.0% | 11 | 60 | 37 | 51 |
| Lanarkshire | 40 | 40 | 100.0% | 5 | 55 | 29 | 50 |
# 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.