| 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 4: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During October-December 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 | 492 | 470 | 95.5% | 0 | 223 | 34 | 58 |
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| NOSCAN | 118 | 118 | 100.0% | 0 | 62 | 33 | 57 |
| Grampian | 38 | 38 | 100.0% | 0 | 60 | 37 | 56 |
| Highland | 30 | 30 | 100.0% | 0 | 61 | 26 | 56 |
| Orkney | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 21 | 21 | n/a | n/a |
| Shetland | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Tayside | 47 | 47 | 100.0% | 3 | 62 | 35 | 59 |
| Western Isles | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 6 | 21 | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 143 | 136 | 95.1% | 0 | 223 | 31 | 59 |
| Borders | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | 8 | 47 | 44 | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 8 | 7 | 87.5% | 12 | 65 | 30 | n/a |
| Fife | 46 | 41 | 89.1% | 0 | 115 | 31 | 65 |
| Lothian | 86 | 85 | 98.8% | 0 | 223 | 30 | 58 |
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| WOSCAN | 231 | 216 | 93.5% | 4 | 129 | 37 | 61 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 35 | 33 | 94.3% | 4 | 95 | 34 | 62 |
| Forth Valley | 26 | 25 | 96.2% | 4 | 68 | 30 | 51 |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 127 | 116 | 91.3% | 5 | 129 | 40 | 62 |
| Lanarkshire | 43 | 42 | 97.7% | 7 | 63 | 33 | 60 |
# 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.