Requested by: Cure Our Ovarian Cancer | Response provided: 21/10/2021
Category: Waiting Times

We would be grateful if a person responsible for triaging ultrasound referrals would be so kind as to tell us what priority (urgent, semi urgent, routine, declined) and time frame (in days or weeks) your clinicians would put on the following twelve referral scenarios for a trans vaginal ultrasound from a community GP (under a Covid Level 1 scenario)?

  1. Premenopausal 36 year old women with new onset bowel habit changes and bloating of
    • 1 months duration, normal pelvic exam, negative family history - with CA-125 of 15
    • 3 months duration, normal pelvic exam, negative family history - with CA-125 of 15 (stable)
    • 3 months duration and new onset urinary frequency, normal pelvic exam, negative family history - with CA-125 of 18 (previously 15)
    • 1 months duration, normal pelvic exam, negative family history - with CA-125 of 37
    • 1 months duration, normal pelvic exam, negative family history - with CA-125 of 205
    • 1 months duration, mass on pelvic exam, negative family history - with CA-125 of 205
  2. Menopausal 50 year old woman presenting with new bowel habit changes and bloating of
    • 1 months duration, normal pelvic exam, negative family history - with CA-125 of 15
    • 3 months duration, normal pelvic exam, negative family history - with CA-125 of 15 (stable)
    • 3 months duration and new onset urinary frequency, normal pelvic exam, negative family history - with CA-125 of 18 (previously 15)
    • 1 months duration, normal pelvic exam, negative family history - with CA-125 of 37
    • 1 months duration, normal pelvic exam, negative family history - with CA-125 of 205
    • 1 months duration, mass on pelvic exam, negative family history - with CA-125 of 205

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