Cancer

Guidance and services

• Suspected cancer pathway: guidelines (WHC/2022/18)
  Guidelines for managing patients on the suspected cancer pathway and how to report against targets.
• Moles and your skin: how to spot danger signs
  Guidance for special procedure practitioners about malignant melanoma.
• Key workers for cancer patients (WHC/2014/001)
  Guidance for health boards on allocating key workers to support cancer patients.
• Standards on reporting radiological examinations
  How to report critical, untoward, urgent or unexpected radiological findings.
• Patient data record: cancer
  Collecting and recording of patients data relating to cancer by GP practices for disease management register.
• Local enhanced service: carcinoma of the prostate
  Outlines specialised services provided by general medical services for carcinoma of the prostate
• Faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) in symptomatic colorectal cancer referral (WHC/2023/02)
  Letter to health boards on faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) for suspected bowel cancer.
• National optimal pathways for cancer (WHC/2022/021)
  Guidance for health boards on introducing standardised pathways of care for cancer.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• The quality statement for cancer
  Policy and strategy
  The quality statement describes what good quality cancer services should look like.
• Radiotherapy equipment needs and workforce implications 2006 to 2016
  Report
  Welsh Scientific Advisory Committee
  Update report to 2020 from the cancer national specialist advisory group.