Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

Specialist MDT: Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

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Men diagnosed at this hospital trust can access the following services:

  • Diagnostic Facilities:
    • Multiparametric MRI
    • Transperineal biopsy under local anaesthetic
    • Transperineal biopsy under general anaesthetic
    • Choline PET
    • Whole body MRI
    • Isotope bone scan
    • One-stop diagnostic clinic
  • Treatment Facilities:
    • External beam radiotherapy (EBRT)
    • Chemotherapy
  • Support Service Facilities:
    • Prostate cancer-specific CNSs
    • Advanced PCa CNS
    • Urology CNS
    • Sexual function services
    • Specialist continence services
    • Psychological counselling

Data Quality

Diagnosing Trust Specialist MDT
No. of Cancer Registry records 302 612
Performance Status recorded 37% 64%
PSA completed 92% 73%
Gleason Score completed N/A N/A
TNM completed 70% 73%
Stage variable assigned 93% 96%

Disease Presentation

Specialist MDT National
No. of men with disease status determined 594 23477
Percentage of men diagnosed with metastatic disease 24% 17%
No. of men diagnosed with M1 (metastases) 140 N/A

Management

These indicators could not be reported this year for England as we were unable to assign a patient to a particular risk group due to the unavailability of information on Gleason score in the Rapid Cancer Registration Dataset

Outcome

Treatment Centre
No. of men who received radical radiotherapy () 93
Adjusted percentage of men experiencing at least one GI complication (%)

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