Management of oesophago-gastric cancer patients
Organisation | National | ||
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Number of oesophago-gastric (OG) cancer patients in audit | 225 | 19,865 | |
Case ascertainment for OG cancer (%) | 85-100% | ||
Method of Diagnosis | |||
– Patients diagnosed after an emergency admission** ** Percent figure accounts for differences in mix of patients across organisations |
29 | 14.1% | 13.1% |
– Patients with referral source reported as unknown | 0 | 0.0% | 1.4% |
Pre-treatment staging of cancer | |||
– Patients having staging CT scan recorded | 218 | 96.9% | 94.0% |
Treatment planning | |||
– Patients having a plan for curative treatment | 73 | 32.4% | 37.2% |
– Patients having a plan for non-curative treatment | 152 | 67.6% | 62.8% |
– Patients with non-curative plans having chemotherapy or radiotherapy | 65 | 42.8% | 34.7% |