1 July 2019

Seven things we learnt by measuring the length of cancer diagnostic pathways

Seven things we learnt by measuring the length of cancer diagnostic pathways [blogpost]
PHE 1 July 2019
  • Commentary on analysis of data for secondary care diagnostic intervals (SCDIs) for cancer patients in England diagnosed in 2014-2015.
  • SCDI data can be viewed and downloaded from a Cancer Data online tool, which displays different cancer types by demographic factors and Cancer Alliance. Using this tool, it is possible to understand how these intervals vary across different stages of disease, age, sex, ethnicity, comorbidities, levels of deprivation, routes to diagnosis and in different parts of England, to support initiatives to diagnose cancer faster within the NHS.