Lymphoedema activity by diagnosis
Category | No of attendances | % of activity |
Cancer of breast | 1623 | 12.5 |
Cancers of female genital organs | 726 | 5.6 |
Cancers of lip, oral cavity and pharynx | 375 | 2.9 |
Cancer of unknown primary or other unspecified | 206 | 1.6 |
Cancers of male genital organs, including prostate | 163 | 1.3 |
Cancers of digestive organs, including colon, rectum, stomach, excluding liver, GB, pancreas | 136 | 1.0 |
Cancers of respiratory and intrathoracic organs, including lung | 77 | 0.6 |
Lymphoid and haematopoietic cancers | 74 | 0.6 |
Cancers of urinary tract | 29 | 0.2 |
Cancers of bone, skin, mesothelial and soft tissue, thyroid or endocrine | 24 | 0.2 |
Cancers of brain, eye and other CNS | 24 | 0.2 |
Cancer of independent multiple sites | 15 | 0.1 |
Cancer of liver, intrahepatic bile ducts, gallbladder—specified separate from digestive | * | 0.02 |
Cancer of pancreas—specified separate from digestive | * | 0.01 |
Cancer subtotal | 3476 | 26.8 |
Other heart or circulatory, excluding heart failure and stroke | 6272 | 48.4 |
All other non-cancer diagnoses (everything not included above) | 300 | 2.3 |
Neurological conditions (excluding MND and Alzheimer’s) | 120 | 0.9 |
Chronic respiratory disease | 84 | 0.6 |
Heart failure | 53 | 0.4 |
Chronic renal failure | 29 | 0.2 |
Dementia including Alzheimer’s | 14 | 0.1 |
Diabetes mellitus | 8 | 0.1 |
Motor neuron disease | * | 0.05 |
Liver failure, chronic liver disease, other non-malignant liver disease | * | 0.02 |
Stroke, infarction or haemorrhagic—specified separate | – | 0.0 |
Non-cancer subtotal | 6888 | 53.1 |
Unknown | 2601 | 20.1 |
Total | 12 965 | 100 |
*Number is <6.
CNS, Central Nervous System; GB, Gall Bladder; MND, Motor Neuron Disease.