National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS). (2018). Cancer Registration: Frequency of tumours diagnosed by route to diagnosis, per Government Office Region (GOR) for 38 cancer sites (2006-2013) [Data set]. Public Health England. https://doi.org/10.25503/3xn3-jp97
Total incident tumours (malignant and in situ) by Route to Diagnosis per Government Office Region. The data is restricted to the England resident population diagnosed between 01/01 2006 and 31/12/2013. 38 cancer sites are identified and the data is split by age at diagnosis (aggregated to 20 year age band)
-- TOTAL (total number of patients)
--FINAL_ROUTE (One of eight Routes to Diagnosis- methodology for the assignment of each route is described in Elliss-Brookes L, McPhail S, Greenslade M, Shelton J, Hiom S, Richards M (2012) Routes to diagnosis for cancer – determining the patient journey using multiple routine data sets. British Journal of Cancer 107: 1220–1226.)
-- DIAGDATEYEAR (Year of diagnosis)
-- RTD_GROUPS_BREAKDOWN_2013 (Description of site of tumour (topography))
-- GOR_CODE (in accordance with GOR classifications for April 1996-July 1998. See www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/ukgeographies/administrativegeography/england)
-- GOR_NAME (Description of GOR_CODE for each Government Office Region)
-- AGE (aggregated in 4 categories: 0-39, 40-59, 60-79, 80+)
