Official Statistics

Emergency presentations of cancer: data up to December 2020

Estimated proportion of all malignant cancers where patients first presented as an emergency.

Applies to England

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The quarterly emergency presentations of cancer data has been updated by Public Health England’s National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS).

Data estimates are for all malignant cancers (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) and are at Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) level, with England as a whole for comparison.

This latest publication includes quarterly data for October to December 2020 (quarter 3 of financial year 2020 to 2021) and an update of the one year rolling average.

The proportion of emergency presentations for cancer is an indicator of patient outcomes.

Published 11 June 2021