Causes for delay before specialist consultation in head and neck cancer.

CONCLUSIONS: Although most patients sought medical advice without a major delay and were adequately referred, we found that long delays existed. Raising awareness of the symptoms of head and neck cancer among general population and health-care providers is probably the best way to get patients to curative treatment without delay.
PMID: 30141700 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Acta Oncologica - August 24, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Nieminen M, Aro K, Jouhi L, Bäck L, Mäkitie A, Atula T Tags: Acta Oncol Source Type: research