21 April 2020

Cancer patients in England: diagnostic intervals - commentary

Cancer patients in England: diagnostic intervals
PHE 21 April 2020
  • Population-based statistics on diagnostic intervals for cancer patients for 24 cancer types diagnosed in 2014 and 2015 in England. 
  • This commentary accompanies an interactive tool that presents these diagnostic intervals and frequencies by age at diagnosis, stage at diagnosis, broad ethnic group, Charlson comorbidity index, income deprivation, sex and Cancer Alliance. 
  • It includes new insights by ethnicity, stage and comorbidity.