ArticleJournal of public health research2020
Waiting times for prostate cancer: A review.
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- Delayed definitive management of localized prostate cancer: what do we know?Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases · 2025Review
- Late diagnosis among patients with prostate cancer at the Uganda Cancer Institute: a retrospective cohort study.African health sciences · 2024Article
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- Rapid Histological Assessment of Prostate Specimens in the Three-dimensional Space by Hydrophilic Tissue Clearing and Confocal Microscopy.The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry : official journal of the Histochemistry Society · 2022Article
- Exploring wait time variations in a prostate cancer patient pathway-A qualitative study.The International journal of health planning and management · 2022Article
- One-Day Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: Biparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Digital Pathology by Fluorescence Confocal Microscopy.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Sociodemographic and Geographic Disparities of Prostate Cancer Treatment Delay in Tennessee: A Population-Based Study.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
Prostate cancer is one of the most common diagnosed cancers in men and the waiting time has become an important issue not only for clinical reasons, but also mostly for the psychological implications on patients. The aim of our study was to review and analyze the literature on waiting times for prostate cancer. In February-March 2019 we performed a search for original peerreviewed papers in the electronic database PubMed (MEDLINE). The key search terms were "prostate cancer AND waiting list", "prostate cancer AND waiting times". We included in our narrative review articles in Italian, English or French, published in 2009-2019 containing original data about the waiting times for prostate cancer. The literature search yielded 680 publications. Finally, we identified 8 manuscripts eligible for the review. The articles were published between 2010 and 2019; the studies involved a minimum of 16 to a maximum of 95438 participants. Studies have been conducted in 6 countries. The waiting times from cancer suspicion to histopathological diagnosis and to treatment had an important reduction in the last years, and this constant decrease could lead to an increase of patients' satisfaction.
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