Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Management of oesophago-gastric cancer patients

Time period: 2020-2022
Organisation National
Number of oesophago-gastric (OG) cancer patients in audit 157 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
28 21.6% 13.1%
– Patients with referral source reported as unknown 7 4.5% 1.4%
Pre-treatment staging of cancer
– Patients having staging CT scan recorded 144 91.7% 94.0%
Treatment planning
– Patients having a plan for curative treatment 77 49.0% 37.2%
– Patients having a plan for non-curative treatment 80 51.0% 62.8%
– Patients with non-curative plans having chemotherapy or radiotherapy 32 40.0% 34.7%

Outcomes for OG cancer patients who have curative surgery

Time period: 2019-2022
Organisation National
Number of patients having surgery 136 5452
Length of stay, median (days) 13 10
Operations in which 15 or more lymph nodes were examined (%) 93.1% 90.1%
30-day postoperative mortality (%) 1.8% 1.5%
90-day postoperative mortality (%) 1.8% 2.9%
Oesophageal surgery
Number of patients having oesophageal surgery 91 N/A
Oesophageal patients with positive longitudinal margins (%) 11.3% 4.9%
Oesophageal patients with positive circumferential margins (%) 34.2% 21.5%
Gastric surgery
Number of patients having gastric surgery 45 N/A
Gastric patients with positive longitudinal margins (%) 5.0% 9.8%

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