questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients in England (a) are awaiting cancer treatment and (b) have been waiting longer than the (i) 31 and (ii) 62 day targets.
answerText: Cancer treatment waiting list data is not published, however, we can provide the latest published 62-day cancer backlog figure, which was 15,102 for the week ending 1 March 2026. The 62-day backlog is the number of patients waiting on the 62-day pathway f...
heading: Cancer: Waiting Lists