Alarming new data shows NHS Lanarkshire patients from the East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow constituency missed the target treatment time following an urgent cancer suspicion.
Figures from Public Health Scotland show that 4873 patients (82 per cent) started treatment within 62 days of an urgent cancer suspicion, missing the standard target of 95 per cent over the same period.
A total of 892 people missed the compliance standard locally for cancers including breast, cervical, colorectal, head and neck, lung, lymphoma, melanoma, ovarian, upper GI and urological cancers.
