PHE updated 17 January 2018
- Routes to Diagnosis now includes 10 years’ worth of data, covering more than 3 million cancer cases. Key findings include:
- diagnoses from emergency presentations, where outcomes are the worst, have improved falling from 24% to 20% between 2006 to 2015
- diagnoses through urgent GP referrals - 2 week waits - have increased significantly from 25% in 2005 to 37% in 2015
- diagnoses of pancreatic cancer through emergency presentation has fallen by 6%
- diagnoses of colorectal cancers through the national bowel screening programme remain under 10%
- the number of cancer cases diagnosed in Accident and Emergency varies across the country regardless of cancer incidence levels
- This latest update includes a new interactive tool which presents trends in patient pathways leading to diagnosis for 53 different types of cancer.
