Purpose It is often assumed that prolonged time to diagnosis (TTD) for cancer negatively
influences overall survival and survivorship through advanced stage disease at diagnosis …

Early access to care is essential to improve survival rates for childhood cancer. This study
evaluates the determinants of delays in childhood cancer care in low‐and middle‐income …

Background Pediatric cancer patients in China often present at an advanced stage of
disease resulting in lower survival and poorer health outcomes. One factor hypothesized to …

Introduction Most pediatric cancer patients in developing countries present at an advanced
stage due to delayed diagnosis, being an important barrier to effective care. The objective of …

Background The potential impact of diagnostic delays on patients' outcomes is a debated
issue in pediatric oncology and discordant results have been published so far. We attempted …

Background Children presenting with medulloblastoma have a wide range of initial
presenting symptoms. However, the influence of underlying tumor biology on the initial …

Childhood cancer is a leading cause of childhood mortality in developed countries though
ranks lower than infections in developing countries. Most patients with malignancies present …

Abstract Aims and Objectives To describe the facilitators and barriers of getting from
'something's not right'to a childhood cancer diagnosis from the perspective of parents living …

In childhood cancer patients, early diagnosis may have an impact on survival that reduces
the potential morbidity. This study aimed to identify the factors associated with delay in …

Background: Pediatric cancer is rare and its symptoms are often ambiguous. The aims of this
study were to investigate the time needed to make a diagnosis, assess the frequency of …