PHS FOI 2024-001912
- Date of request
- 30 July 2024
- Date of response
- 21 August 2024
- FOI request ID
- PHS FOI 2024-001912
- Performance and monitoring
Request
“The Scottish Cancer Registry includes information on ‘Method of first
detection’. This field has been collected for all cancer registrations since
- This is a record of how the tumour was first detected.
Options available under this variable are:
- Screening examination
- Incidental finding (on examination or at surgery for an unrelated reason)
- Clinical presentation (with relevant symptoms)
- Incidental finding at autopsy (previously unsuspected)
- Interval cancer
- Other
- Not known”
Based on this information, please provide the following information
“1. A clear definition of what each of above 7 mean options mean. In other
words, a sentence or two of how PHS defines these options.”