PLANNED DEFINITIVE TREATMENT

This is an indicator that the Planned Cancer Treatment is a definitive treatment or intervention given which is intended to remove or shrink a cancer tumour, to enable an anti-cancer treatment and/or to palliate the effects of the cancer.

Classification:

a.planned definitive treatment
b.not definitive treatment

References: The NHS National Cancer Waiting Times, Department of Health, Data Set Change Notice 22/2002.

 

This attribute is also known by these names:
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pluralPLANNED DEFINITIVE TREATMENTS