Almost a quarter of people are waiting longer than the 62-day target for their first treatment.
Almost a quarter of people being referred with urgent suspicion of cancer are waiting longer than the 62-day target for their first treatment.
It showed there were 3,861 eligible referrals, down 6.8% on the previous quarter, but almost 900 did not start treatment within the two-month target.Janice Preston, of Macmillan Cancer Support in Scotland, said any delay in receiving a cancer diagnosis and starting treatment caused a huge amount of worry and distress.
"When a patient comes to see me with signs of cancer, I act quickly because time is vital to their survival - yet these figures highlight a truly terrifying reality when it comes to cancer diagnosis in Scotland," he said. Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesman Alex Cole-Hamilton said the figures painted a "bleak picture".
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