| 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 7: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During October-December 2008 with Ovarian 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 | 87 | 85 | 97.7% | 0 | 103 | 30 | 56 |
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| NOSCAN | 26 | 25 | 96.2% | 0 | 103 | 32 | 60 |
| Grampian | 14 | 14 | 100.0% | 1 | 61 | 32 | 59 |
| Highland | 6 | 5 | 83.3% | 1 | 103 | 42 | 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 | 6 | 6 | 100.0% | 0 | 56 | 19 | n/a |
| Western Isles | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 28 | 27 | 96.4% | 4 | 71 | 36 | 59 |
| Borders | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 39 | 39 | n/a | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 43 | 59 | n/a | n/a |
| Fife | 5 | 5 | 100.0% | 10 | 47 | 33 | n/a |
| Lothian | 20 | 19 | 95.0% | 4 | 71 | 30 | 62 |
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| WOSCAN | 33 | 33 | 100.0% | 5 | 53 | 26 | 44 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 8 | 8 | 100.0% | 5 | 40 | 21 | n/a |
| Forth Valley | 4 | 4 | 100.0% | 23 | 43 | 34 | n/a |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 18 | 18 | 100.0% | 5 | 53 | 24 | 45 |
| Lanarkshire | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | 22 | 45 | 34 | n/a |
# 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.