Background: There is evidence that delays in treatment result in increased psychosocial
morbidity for patients diagnosed with cancer. We evaluated waiting times for care among …

Background: Patients frequently voice concerns regarding wait times for cancer treatment;
however, little is known about the length of wait times from diagnosis to surgery in the United …

AIMS: Despite persistent public interest and the perception among clinicians and patients
that increased waiting time for cancer surgery is related to worse outcomes, little is known …

Purpose To determine how long patients in Ontario waited for major breast, colorectal, lung
or prostate cancer surgery in the years 1993–2000. Methods “Surgical waiting time” was …

© 2000 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors received treatment during December
1999 had waited, the retrospective method would be used. Alternatively, one could use the …

Objective The purpose of this study was to assess the value in measuring specific time
intervals across cancer sites to identify potentially important variation in the timeliness of …

Purpose: Waiting lists for radiotherapy are a fact of life at many Canadian cancer centers.
The purpose of this study was to provide a detailed description of the magnitude of the …

Background Although costs of medical care for cancer have been investigated extensively,
patient time costs associated with cancer care have rarely been estimated systematically. In …

Purpose: To study the wait times for cancer patients from the time of diagnosis to
consultation with a radiation oncologist (T1), from consultation to radiotherapy (T2) and from …

In his memoirs, the legendary head of the Department of Oncology (Radiumhemmet),
Karolinska Hospital, Professor Jerzy Einhorn, described a chain of events during the late …