Contents

• Foreword
• Methodology
  • What is service guidance?
  • Updating a NICE cancer service guidance
  • The remit of the guideline
  • The guideline development process – who develops the guideline?
  • Developing clinical evidence-based questions
  • Review of Clinical Literature
  • References
• 1. Epidemiology
  • Methods
  • Definition of included cases and disease groups
  • Data sources
  • Age-standardised Rates
  • Relative Survival
  • Routes to diagnosis
  • Patient experience survey
  • National Audit of Cancer Diagnosis in Primary Care
  • Key points
  • Introduction
  • Data quality and availability
  • What is covered in this summary and what is not
  • All haematological malignancies
• 2. Diagnosis and evaluation
  • 2.1. The role of integrated diagnostic reporting in the diagnosis of haematological malignancies.
  • References
• 3. Organisation of specialist services
  • 3.1. The staffing and facilities (levels of care) needed to treat haematological cancers and support adults and young people who are having high-intensity non-transplant chemotherapy.
  • 3.2. Multi-disciplinary teams (MDT)
• Supporting Evidence
• Appendices
  • Appendix A. The cost effectiveness of co-located and networked centralised specialist laboratories offering integrated diagnostic reporting in comparison to local reporting in the diagnosis of haematological cancers
  • Appendix B. Needs Assessment
  • Appendix C. Guideline Scope
  • Appendix D. Abbreviations
  • Appendix E. Glossary
  • Appendix F. People and organisations involved in the production of this guideline
  • Appendix G. Evidence review
  • Appendix H. Recommendations to be deleted or changed

Final version

Developed by the National Collaborating Centre for Cancer

Disclaimer: Healthcare professionals are expected to take NICE clinical guidelines fully into account when exercising their clinical judgement. However, the guidance does not override the responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of each patient, in consultation with the patient and/or their guardian or carer.