Delays in diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer: Lessons from US healthcare settings.

M M Koo, Y Zhou, G Lyratzopoulos

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Article in Cancer epidemiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

Treatment delays in patients with lung cancer: a retrospective study conducted at the National Cancer Institute of Mexico between 2004 and 2021.The oncologist · 2025
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Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Timeliness of Care among Lung Cancer Patients.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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Predicting delays in lung cancer diagnosis and staging.Thoracic cancer · 2019
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How long is too long? A scoping review of health system delays in lung cancer.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2018
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Reducing Bottlenecks to Improve the Efficiency of the Lung Cancer Care Delivery Process: A Process Engineering Modeling Approach to Patient-Centered Care.Journal of medical systems · 2017
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Management of screening-detected stage I lung cancer.Journal of thoracic disease · 2016
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Barriers and explanatory mechanisms in diagnostic delay in four cancers - A health-care disparity?South Asian journal of cancer
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Guideline-concordant timely lung cancer care and prognosis among elderly patients in the United States: A population-based study.2015

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

M M KooHealth Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK. Electronic address: monica.koo.14@ucl.ac.uk.

Y ZhouCambridge Centre for Health Services Research, The Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Robinson Way, Forvie Site, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK.

G LyratzopoulosHealth Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK; Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research, The Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Robinson Way, Forvie Site, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK.

Funding

Cancer Research UK 18180

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Time-to-TreatmentCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungFemaleGuideline AdherenceHumansLung NeoplasmsMaleCancerDiagnosisEarlyLateLungMedicareSEERSurvivalSymptomsTreatment

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PMID26364017

DOI10.1016/j.canep.2015.08.008

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