Routes to Diagnosis of Cancer

Project Details

The main aims of this project are: To identify and categorise the routes to diagnosis for patients diagnosed with cancer in Victoria and compare existing approaches to defining the different pathways; to examine overall rates, trends, patient level-differences (e.g., by sex, age, SEIFA, ethnicity, comorbidity index, and individual comorbidity), tumour-type differences (e.g., by cancer site, tumour subtype, stage), and geographical differences (e.g., metro, regional, rural) for different routes to diagnosis; to explore the prognostic implications of different routes to diagnosis, including associations with survival; to examine whether differences in route to diagnosis are associated with differences in treatment; to explore pre-diagnostic activity trends for different routes of diagnosis; to compare routes to diagnosis for Victorian patients to international cohorts.

Project Lead: Brooke Garrard

Patron ID: PAT1044