Background Even small delays in the treatment of breast cancer are a frequently expressed
concern of patients. Knowledge about this subject is important for clinicians to counsel …

Importance Time to surgery (TTS) is of concern to patients and clinicians, but controversy
surrounds its effect on breast cancer survival. There remains little national data evaluating …

Importance Adjuvant chemotherapy improves outcomes of patients with breast cancer.
However, the optimal timing of chemotherapy initiation is unknown. Delayed administration …

AbstractDelays in treating breast cancer have been associated with a more advanced stage
of the disease and a decrease in patient survival rates. The scope of this integrative review …

Purpose For patients with breast cancer (BC), the optimal time to initiation of adjuvant
chemotherapy (TTC) after definitive surgery is unknown. We evaluated the association …

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to identify trends and predictors of the time to
treatment initiation (TTI) for patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) …

Background Cancer patients had been profoundly affected by the outbreak of COVID-19
especially after quarantine restrictions in China. We aimed to explore the treatment changes …

Objective: The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic causes delays in the
diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients due to fear of contagion and lockdown. This …

Importance Although longer times from breast cancer diagnosis to primary surgery have
been associated with worse survival outcomes, the specific time point after which it is …

Este estudo teve como objetivo analisar o intervalo de tempo entre o diagnóstico eo início
do tratamento do câncer de mama em mulheres e seus determinantes. Foi realizado um …