A Cancer Pathway is a PATIENT PATHWAY.

A Cancer Pathway is the PATIENT’s journey from the initial suspicion of cancer through Clinical Investigations, PATIENT DIAGNOSIS and treatment.

This could be by:

• Initial referral to a hospital specialist by the PATIENT's GENERAL PRACTITIONER
• Assessment in an Emergency Care Department
• Assessment when the PATIENT is already in the hospital system with an acute illness or an earlier PATIENT DIAGNOSIS
• Identification through one of the Screening Programmes.

For the following data sets, types of Cancer Pathway include:

• Cancer Outcomes and Services Data Set:
  • Primary Cancer Pathway
  • Non Primary Cancer Pathway.
    
• National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Data Set:
  • Cancer Faster Diagnosis Pathway.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	Cancer Pathways