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Routes to Diagnosis: 2006 to 2017 results
The Routes to Diagnosis project links multiple health datasets to categorise the pathways that lead to a patient’s diagnosis of cancer.
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Routes to Diagnosis categorises the pathways that lead to a patient’s diagnosis of cancer. These results provide an overview of the results for 2006 to 2017, showing the trends over time for all malignant neoplasms (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) and a snapshot of results in 2017 for female breast, colorectal, lung and prostate cancers.
Overall, emergency presentations continue to decline gradually, with the proportion of those diagnosed through the Two Week Wait referral route increasing as it has done since 2006.