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Cancer waiting times: patients starting treatment and patients informed they do not have cancer, June 2019 onwards

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Date	Shown in table	All 82 values	Change values
Local health board	Shown in table	All 8 values	Change values
Tumour site	Shown in table	All 16 values	Change values
Sex	Shown in table	All 4 values	Change values
Age group	Shown in table	All 10 values	Change values
Data description	Shown in table	All 4 values	Change values

Table

Data values	Data description	Date	Local health board	Tumour site	Sex	Age group
2,004	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Total	Total
28	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Total	Under 30
39	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Total	30-39
72	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Total	40-49
232	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Total	50-59
464	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Total	60-69
650	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Total	70-79
431	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Total	80-89
88	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Total	90+
1,097	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Male	Total
9	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Male	Under 30
14	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Male	30-39
22	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Male	40-49
99	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Male	50-59
281	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Male	60-69
395	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Male	70-79
229	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Male	80-89
48	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Male	90+
907	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Female	Total
19	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Female	Under 30
25	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Female	30-39
50	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Female	40-49
133	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Female	50-59
183	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Female	60-69
255	patients starting treatment	March 2026	Wales	All sites	Female	70-79

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Metadata

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Next update expected:18 June 2026

Updates

• 21st May 2026:

  New month added and revisions applied to previous data where applicable

• 27th April 2026:

  Metadata updated

• 23rd April 2026:

  New month added.

• 19th March 2026:

  New month added

• 19th February 2026:

  New month added and revisions applied to previous data where applicable

• 22nd January 2026:

  New month added

• 18th December 2025:

  New month added.

• 26th September 2025: Dataset first published.

Main information

• Designation: Accredited official statistics
• Data provider: Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW)
• Data source: Suspected Cancer Pathway (SCP)
• Time period covered: June 2019 to March 2026

Overview

• Summary of dataset and variables:

  Data on new suspected cancer pathways, patients starting treatment and waiting times for cancer treatment in Wales.

• Data collection or calculation:

  Under the suspected cancer pathway (SCP), a pathway starts at the point of suspicion, for example when a GP makes a referral. Pathways are closed, and waiting times end, when patients start their first definitive treatment, are downgraded (told they do not have cancer), choose not to have treatment or if the patient dies. Note that patients can be on more than one pathway.

  Data are drawn from Local Health Board administrative systems relating to the management of patients referred on the SCP. Data are reported monthly by Local Health Boards via Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW). The data collection has been in place since June 2019.

• Statistical quality:

  Data definitions and standards are mandated by the Welsh Information Standards Board (WISB).

  Suspected cancer pathway data is measured by patient pathways rather than unique patients. This is because a single patient can have multiple cancer pathways opened if cancer is suspected in more than one tumour site. When quality assuring open pathway data for October, November and December 2021, it was estimated that the number of pathways opened is approximately 2-3% higher than the number of unique patients who were suspected of having cancer.

  Direct comparisons should not be made between these statistics and the previous statistics which ran to November 2020.

• Related reports:
  • NHS activity and performance summary (English)
  • NHS activity and performance summary: quality report (English)
  • Suspected cancer pathway: quality report (English)
  • NHS activity and performance summary (Welsh)
  • NHS activity and performance summary: quality report (Welsh)
  • Suspected cancer pathway: quality report (Welsh)

Published by

• Organisation: Welsh Government
• Contact email: stats.healthinfo@gov.wales