Do diagnostic delays in cancer matter?

Influence of delay on survival in patients with breast cancer: a systematic review

1999 • 1,116 citations

Survival for eight major cancers and all cancers combined for European adults diagnosed in 1995–99: results of the EUROCARE-4 study

2007 • 806 citations

Delays in the diagnosis of six cancers: analysis of data from the National Survey of NHS Patients: Cancer

2005 • 275 citations

Patient delay and stage of diagnosis among breast cancer patients in Germany – a population based study

2002 • 256 citations

How Does Colorectal Cancer Present? Symptoms, Duration, and Clues to Location

1999 • 247 citations

Alarm symptoms in early diagnosis of cancer in primary care: cohort study using General Practice Research Database

2007 • 247 citations

Effect of delays on prognosis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

2004 • 235 citations

Is late diagnosis of lung cancer inevitable? Interview study of patients' recollections of symptoms before diagnosis

2005 • 232 citations

Influences on pre-hospital delay in the diagnosis of colorectal cancer: a systematic review

2007 • 228 citations

Effect on survival of delays in referral of patients with breast-cancer symptoms: a retrospective analysis

1999 • 202 citations

Symptoms associated with diagnosis of ovarian cancer: a systematic review

2005 • 151 citations

Systematic review of factors influencing patient and practitioner delay in diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal cancer

2006 • 150 citations

Patient's and doctors’ delays in the diagnosis of chest tumors

2002 • 136 citations

Delay in diagnosis of retinoblastoma: risk factors and treatment outcome

1999 • 134 citations

Impact of Delay on Diagnosis and Treatment of Primary Lung Cancer

2002 • 132 citations

Delay in Treatment of Colorectal Cancer: Multifactorial Problem

2003 • 130 citations

The mortality of colorectal cancer in relation to the initial symptom at presentation to primary care and to the duration of symptoms: a cohort study using medical records

2006 • 122 citations

The waiting time paradox: population based retrospective study of treatment delay and survival of women with endometrial cancer in Scotland

2002 • 113 citations

Influence of "diagnostic delay" upon cancer survival: an analysis of five tumour sites.

1991 • 109 citations

Delay in the diagnosis of cutaneous malignant melanoma. A prospective study in 250 patients

1991 • 105 citations

Delay in the diagnosis and outcome of colorectal cancer:a prospective study

1999 • 99 citations

Effect of preoperative delay on prognosis for patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer

2003 • 98 citations

Stage, survival and delays in lung, colorectal, prostate and ovarian cancer: comparison between diagnostic routes

2007 • 94 citations

Can Early Diagnosis of Symptomatic Colorectal Cancer Improve the Prognosis?

2004 • 84 citations

Awareness and early detection of cutaneous melanoma: an analysis of factors related to delay in treatment

1999 • 82 citations

The Relationship Between Melanoma Thickness and Time to Diagnosis in a Large Population-Based Study

2006 • 77 citations

Patient Knowledge, Awareness, and Delay in Seeking Medical Attention for Malignant Melanoma

1999 • 76 citations

Implications of Delayed Diagnosis in Colorectal Cancer

2000 • 73 citations

Effect of delays in primary care referral on survival of women with epithelial ovarian cancer: retrospective audit

2002 • 73 citations

Delay in referral of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma to secondary care correlates with a more advanced stage at presentation, and is associated with poorer survival

2006 • 72 citations

Changing Incidence and Delay of Testicular Cancer in Southern Norway (1981-1992)

1996 • 72 citations

Delay in diagnosis of epithelial ovarian cancer

1996 • 64 citations

Diagnostic delays in laryngeal carcinoma: Professional diagnostic delay is a strong independent predictor of survival

2002 • 63 citations

Duration of colorectal cancer symptoms and survival: the effect of confounding clinical and pathological variables

1997 • 61 citations

Delay in diagnosis of cancer. Possible effects on the stage of disease and survival

1984 • 61 citations

A paradox explained? Patients with delayed diagnosis of symptomatic colorectal cancer have good prognosis

2006 • 60 citations

Determining the date of diagnosis – is it a simple matter? The impact of different approaches to dating diagnosis on estimates of delayed care for ovarian cancer in UK primary care

2009 • 53 citations

Factors of delay in the diagnosis of melanoma.

2003 • 48 citations

Urgent GP referrals for suspected lung, colorectal, prostate and ovarian cancer.

2006 • 42 citations

The effect of diagnosis and treatment delay on prognostic factors and survival in endometrial carcinoma

1995 • 37 citations

PRESENTATION, DURATION OF SYMPTOMS AND STAGING OF COLORECTAL CARCINOMA

1991 • 34 citations

Duration of symptoms and spread of colorectal cancer: a short history does not mean early disease

2002 • 32 citations

Time delays and related factors in the diagnosis of cutaneous melanoma

2001 • 32 citations

Diagnostic delay and prognosis in invasive bladder cancer

2003 • 30 citations

Symptom duration versus survival in non‐emergency colorectal cancer

2004 • 30 citations

Symptom duration and pathologic staging of colorectal cancer.

1986 • 28 citations

Targets and elective colorectal cancer: outcome and symptom delay at surgical resection

2005 • 28 citations

Do delays between diagnosis and surgery in resectable oesophageal cancer affect survival? a study based on West Midlands cancer registration data

2006 • 24 citations

Biodistribution and Pharmacokinetics of¹¹¹In-DTPA-Labelled Pegylated Liposomes After Intraperitoneal Injection

2003 • 23 citations

Factors involved in diagnostic delay of testicular cancer.

1999 • 18 citations

Reasons for the Delays in the Definitive Diagnosis of Lung Cancer for More than One Year from the Recognition of Abnormal Chest Shadows.

2002 • 17 citations

Cancer diagnosis in primary care

2021 • 15 citations