Along the Cancer Pathway

Analysis brief

Understanding future volume on cancer pathways is important from a health systems planning perspective. This project estimates the level of demand the health system could face during the next five years by projecting current Cancer Waiting times....

View the Cancer Waiting Times full report(PDF, 599 KB) May 2025

Key stats

COVID-19’s effect on cancer patients is a key concern to the cancer community with delayed or decreased diagnosis, tests and treatment. To understand this variable and rapidly changing landscape the Cancer Intelligence team are...

Read Performance measures across the cancer pathway report(PDF, 1.04 MB) May 2025

Report

NHS England has a target that at least 85% of patients should start their first treatment for cancer within 62 days of an urgent GP referral for suspected cancer. However, performance against this target has significantly deteriorated in recent years...

Read in full: Which cancer patients experience long waits and why?(PDF, 1.43 MB) May 2025

Screening tool

We know that socio-demographic factors can affect screening coverage. This tool models how socio-demographic factors may impact screening coverage to produce an estimated local level which is then compared to the actual screening ...

Explore the Bowel Screening Tool

View the Bowel Screening Tool Guide(PDF, 827 KB) May 2025

Publication: Cancer Epidemiol.

Diagnosis of cancer soon after emergency care use is associated with adverse prognosis. This analysis used data from the National Cancer Diagnosis Audit to more precisely explore different definitions of emergency diagnosis and the predictors...

Read the full Emergency diagnosis of Cancer report May 2025

Publication: BJGP

This analysis used data from the National Cancer Diagnosis Audit to examine possible changes to aspects of the diagnostic process, and its timeliness, before and after publication of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's (2015) guidance....

NCDA a comparative analysis May 2025

Publication: BJGP

This analysis used data from the National Cancer Diagnosis Audit to examine possible changes to aspects of the diagnostic process, and its timeliness, before and after publication of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's (2015) guidance....

View the Diagnosing Cancer in Primary Care publication May 2025

Publication: Cancer Epidemiol.

There is a growing emphasis on the speed of diagnosis as an aspect of cancer prognosis. Epidemiological data in the last decade have quantified diagnostic timeliness and its variation. Whether prolonged diagnostic intervals can be considered avoidable has...

Read the full Frequency, nature and impact of GP-assessed avoidable delays publication May 2025

Publication: BMJ

Our CRUK-NHS E partnership team have evaluated whether certain ethnic groups in England are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage. Reviewing diagnoses of 6 cancer types from 2012-2016 in people belonging to one of 5 ethnic groups, we found that...

Read the full Relationship Between Ethnicity and Stage at Diagnosis Publication May 2025

Report

Our CRUK-NHS England partnership team have calculated conditional 1- and 5- year survival estimates for patients diagnosed in England between 2015 and 2019. This analysis calculates the survival of patients who have already survived their diagnosis for ...

Read the full 1- and 5- year conditional survival report(PDF, 2.98 MB) May 2025

Analysis brief

The Cancer Research UK analysis brief examines cancer cases and deaths in the UK during the current parliamentary term. It provides data on trends in cancer incidence and mortality across different demographics, highlighting disparities in ...

View Cancer cases and deaths current parliamentary term(PDF, 291 KB) May 2025

Analysis brief

This report examines the relationship between deprivation and cancer mortality in the UK and its constituent countries. All analyses were completed within each country separately and then summed to UK totals. The report finds cancer ...

Mortality by deprivation analysis in full.(PDF, 300 KB) May 2025

Publication: BJC

A study analyzed cancer incidence rates in England from 2013 to 2017, focusing on differences among broad ethnic groups. Overall, non-White minority ethnic groups had lower cancer risks compared to the White population. However, ...

Read the full Cancer incidence by by broad ethnic group publication May 2025

Publication: BMJ

A study analyzed cancer incidence and mortality trends in the UK among adults aged 35-69 from 1993 to 2018. Cancer cases increased by 57% in men and 48% in women, with age-standardized rates rising by 0.8% annually for both sexes. Prostate and breast ....

Read more on the 25 year trends in cancer incidence and mortality among adults May 2025

Report

In partnership with the National Cancer Registration Services (NCRAS), we have produced 10 year survival by stage estimates for the East of England. 10 year survival gives cancer patients a more accurate reflection of their long term survival experience ...

10-Year Survival by Stage full technical report

View the cancer survival by stage at diagnosis infographic(PDF, 291 KB) May 2025