Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist MDT: Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation 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
    • PSMA (prostate-specific membrane antigen) PET scan
    • Whole body MRI
    • Isotope bone scan
  • Treatment Facilities:
    • External beam radiotherapy (EBRT)
    • Chemotherapy
  • Support Service Facilities:
    • Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in all clinics
    • Prostate cancer-specific CNSs
    • Advanced PCa CNS
    • Urology CNS
    • Specialist continence services

Data Quality

Diagnosing Trust Specialist MDT
No. of Cancer Registry records 231 884
Performance Status recorded 99% 67%
PSA completed 78% 68%
Gleason Score completed N/A N/A
TNM completed 94% 62%
Stage variable assigned 97% 75%

Disease Presentation

Specialist MDT National
No. of men with disease status determined 665 23477
Percentage of men diagnosed with metastatic disease 15% 17%
No. of men diagnosed with M1 (metastases) 101 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 () 135
Adjusted percentage of men experiencing at least one GI complication (%)

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