| 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 5: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During October-December 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 | 115 | 108 | 93.9% | 0 | 147 | 35 | 60 |
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| NOSCAN | 36 | 36 | 100.0% | 1 | 61 | 28 | 56 |
| Grampian | 18 | 18 | 100.0% | 1 | 61 | 35 | 59 |
| Highland | 9 | 9 | 100.0% | 4 | 54 | 23 | 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 | 9 | 9 | 100.0% | 12 | 57 | 28 | n/a |
| Western Isles | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 39 | 35 | 89.7% | 0 | 147 | 45 | 75 |
| Borders | 4 | 4 | 100.0% | 21 | 50 | 37 | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 4 | 3 | 75.0% | 0 | 96 | 46 | n/a |
| Fife | 4 | 4 | 100.0% | 9 | 36 | 22 | n/a |
| Lothian | 27 | 24 | 88.9% | 8 | 147 | 47 | 78 |
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| WOSCAN | 40 | 37 | 92.5% | 4 | 92 | 32 | 62 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 5 | 4 | 80.0% | 5 | 92 | 22 | n/a |
| Forth Valley | 7 | 7 | 100.0% | 9 | 47 | 25 | n/a |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 17 | 16 | 94.1% | 9 | 90 | 35 | 68 |
| Lanarkshire | 11 | 10 | 90.9% | 4 | 71 | 47 | 69 |
# 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.