What is it about?
The aim of this study was to measure the association of a significant number of objective and perceptual factors with the diagnostic delay among Iranian patients with breast cancer.
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Why is it important?
Informing women and doctors, especially general physicians who are practicing in rural areas, of the common symptoms of breast cancer as well as training women to perform breast self-examination are effective measures in reducing breast cancer diagnosis delay. Providing accessible and effective diagnosis services to rural women reduces diagnosis delay in rural patients.
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Higher education, living in cities, ductal type of tumor, and noticing lump in breast were the most important demographic and clinical factors associated with shorter breast cancer diagnosis delay. Informing women and doctors, especially general physicians who are practicing in rural areas, of the common symptoms of breast cancer as well as training women to perform breast self-examination are effective measures in reducing breast cancer diagnosis delay. Providing accessible and effective diagnosis services to rural women reduces diagnosis delay in rural patients.
Mostafa Dianati
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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This page is a summary of: Impact of social and clinical factors on diagnostic delay of breast cancer, Medicine, September 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health,
DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000004704.
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