Seeded from washingtonpost.com by Alex on 12/6/07
Factors such as socioeconomic status and the cumulative effects of a patient’s other illnesses likely contribute to breast cancer surgery delays, according to preliminary findings of the study, which looked at 1,477 breast cancer patients who had either a lumpectomy or a mastectomy at Johns Hopkins between 2000 and 2005.
The team found that the average interval from breast cancer diagnosis to surgery was six days longer for black American women than for white women (34 days vs. 28 days). Women older than age 70 had to wait an average of 12 more days for surgery than women younger than 40. Those younger women were treated within 21 days, compared with: 28 days for patients ages 40 to 50; 31 days for women in their 50s; 29.5 days for patients ages 60 to 70; and more than 33 days for women older than 70…
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