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http://www.scotsman.com/latestnews/Secret-wait-for-cancer-patients.5451457.jp

Secret wait for cancer patients
 Published Date:  12 July 2009
By Eddie Barnes
CANCER patients are still waiting as long as a year to get life-saving hospital treatment, despite ministers' claims waiting time targets are being met.
Scotland on Sunday has obtained official hospital by hospital data, unpublished by the Scottish Government, which shows that for certain types of cancer, patients in some units are waiting an average of 100 days before getting treated.

In the most extreme case, an Edinburgh patient with urological cancer – likely kidney, testicular or prostate – had to wait 375 days after first seeing the GP before getting treatment.

In May, Scottish ministers revealed that they had met a target to ensure all "urgent" cancer cases were seen within 62 days. However, the figure does not include the thousands of so-called "non-urgent" cases – classified as such because GPs have not flagged up cancer as a possible cause of their illness.

In total, some 27,000 patients are diagnosed with cancer in Scotland ever year. But only 9,500 of them were classified as "urgent" by GPs.

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