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:
This supporting information is also known by these names:
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plural | Cancer Pathways |