Abstract
Journal of Unexplored Medical Data is an open access journal, which considers well-conducted medical science studies, including clinical trials, pilot studies, research reports, original articles, reviews and short communications in the field of medical science.
Highlights
There has been extensive interest in researching causes of delay in breast cancer patients’ diagnosis and treatment[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
The portion of patients’ overall delay to treatment between when a patient first detects a symptom of breast cancer and when they first obtain medical attention has been described by Olesen et al.[14] (2009) as the patient interval
Dependents and other pressing matters, employment responsibilities, transportation costs and difficulty, fear of healthcare worker judgment and fear of not being able to afford treatment were all referenced as factors that caused women, at a time when they were already concerned about their breast cancer symptom, to delay making an appointment for its evaluation
Summary
There has been extensive interest in researching causes of delay in breast cancer patients’ diagnosis and treatment[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. The portion of patients’ overall delay to treatment between when a patient first detects a symptom of breast cancer and when they first obtain medical attention has been described by Olesen et al.[14] (2009) as the patient interval. This has been widely adopted by medical help-seeking behavior researchers, including those who formed the widely-referenced Aarhus checklist for early cancer-diagnosis research[15]. Many researchers have recognized that this period of delay can be broken down into shorter sub-intervals including, an appraisal interval, known as the time a patient takes to interpret new symptoms as concerning for illness, and a help-seeking interval, known as the time from when a patient develops illness concern and when they obtain medical evaluation[16]
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