Diagnostic flow for all patients referred with non-specific symptoms of cancer to a diagnostic centre in Denmark: A descriptive study

Figures & data

Figure 1. Patient trajectory and diagnostic outcomes for all referrals to The Cancer Patient Pathway for Non-specific Symptoms and Signs of Cancer (NSSC-CPP) in diagnostic centre, Farsø (DC Farsø) (N = 314).

Figure 2. Detailed description of patient trajectory and diagnostic outcomes for patients with diagnostic work-up within The Cancer Patient Pathway for Non-specific Symptoms and Signs of Cancer(NSSC-CPP) in diagnostic centre, Farsø (DC Farsø) (N = 227).

Figure 3. Reported symptoms and findings leading to referral (%) on 314 referrals to the Cancer Patient Pathway for Non-specific Symptoms and Signs of Cancer (NSSC-CPP) in diagnostic centre, Farsø (DC Farsø).

Table 1. Diagnoses for all 314 referred patients after work-up and within a 6-month follow-up period.

Malignancies (n = 2) in six patients referred to acute hospital admission
	Lung	1
	Pancreas	1
Malignancies (n = 5) in 11 patients referred to an OS-CCP
	Gastrointestinal tract	4
	Lung	1
Malignancies (n = 18) in 227 patients accepted for DC work-up
	Lung	6
	Gastrointestinal tract	4
	Breast	2
	Renal	1
	Sarcoma	1
	Seminoma	1
	Lymphoma	2
	Polycythaemia vera	1
Non-malignant but clinically relevant diagnosis with initiation of treatment (n = 20)
	Rheumatic polymyalgia and vasculitis	4
	Gastric ulcer	3
	Liver insufficiency and autoimmune hepatitis	2
	Pneumonia	2
	Myocardial infarction	1
	Atrial fibrillation	1
	Thyrotoxicosis	1
	Celiac disease	1
	Biliary diarrhoea	1
	Hemochromatosis	1
	Hepatitis C	1
	Pancreatic insufficiency	1
	Secondary polycythaemia	1
Non-malignant diagnosis without initiation of treatment (n = 16)
	Infection with spontaneous remission	6
	Monoclonal gammopathy unknown significance	5
	Sarcoidosis	1
	Gallstone	1
	Menorrhagia	1
	Anaemia following gastric bypass	1
	Bleeding after biopsy in colon, spontaneous remission	1
New malignancies (n = 2) within 6-month follow-up
	Cervical cancer with abdominal carcinosis	1
	Oesophageal cancer	1