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Between July and September this year, 94% of patients started treatment within 62 days of being urgently referred with suspected cancer.
BBC: Scottish health statistics revealed
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Anyone urgently referred by their GP for suspected cancer should start treatment within 62 days, and hospitals should treat 85% of patients in that time, the government says.
BBC: Plymouth's Derriford Hospital misses cancer targets
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Elsewhere, the figures showed five Scottish health boards - Grampian, Orkney, Fife, Lothian and Forth Valley - failed to meet the target of having 95% of patients urgently referred because of suspected cancer start their treatment within 62 days.
BBC: Scottish health statistics revealed
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Dr Brennan, who was the clinical director of the service from October 1990 until he took paid leave in June 1997, failed to carry out a key test on dozens of women which involves taking a sample of cells from the suspected cancer with a fine needle, the GMC was told.
BBC: Doctors 'failed breast cancer patients'
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Waits in Swansea for suspected breast cancer, for example, are between 10 and 14 days.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | Fury at 17-week cancer test wait
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They called on the Department of Health to force all patients with suspected breast cancer to be seen within two weeks.
BBC: Breast cancer delays 'put lives at risk'
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New standards have been set, new standards are being met and women - nearly all women suspected of breast cancer - are now getting urgent diagnosis within 2 weeks.
BBC: News | UK Politics | Frank Dobson's speech in full
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It has long been suspected that women who have cysts growing in their ovaries are at a higher risk of developing ovarian cancer.
BBC: Removing benign cysts 'saves no lives'