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Socioeconomic and administrative factors associated with treatment delay of esophageal and gastric carcinoma: Prospective study from a tertiary care centre in a developing country.

Abstract：

:This study was aimed to analyze the spectrum of time intervals, from the onset of symptoms to the commencement of treatment in esophagogastric cancers. Factors influencing these time delays and correlation between these time points with variables including socioeconomic strata, educational level, histopathology, location of tumor and the initial modality of treatment were assessed. STUDY SETTING AND METHODS:A prospective analysis of patients with esophagogastric cancer presenting to a single tertiary care unit over a period of 12 months was performed. Histopathology other than adenocarcinoma and squamous cell were excluded. RESULTS:202 patients were enrolled in the study. Most patients presented with advanced disease, i.e. 91.5 % of esophageal and 90 % of gastric malignancies belonged to either stage 3 or stage 4 as per American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging system. The median delay from the appearance of the first symptoms to initiation of treatment was 15 weeks (range 4-64). Patient related factors contributed to a significant delay [median of 5 weeks (range 1-24)]. Administrative factors were responsible for median delay of 3 weeks (range 0.5-20). Curative multimodality treatment was administered in 62.5 % of patients. Significant longer delay was influenced by socioeconomic strata, educational level, evaluation by non-specialist (p < 0.05). No relationship was noted between histopathology, location of tumor or initial modality of treatment. CONCLUSIONS:Delays in our setting is much more than that is seen in Western and even some Asian countries. An important component of delay is administrative related factors. These may be intervened at the hospital level compared to other factors which may need long term community oriented approaches.

journal_name

Cancer Epidemiol

journal_title

Cancer epidemiology

authors

Lokanatha D,Hassan SA,Jacob LA,Suresh Babu MC,Lokesh KN,Rudresha AH,Rajeev LK,Saldanha S,Thottian AGF

doi

10.1016/j.canep.2020.101770

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pub_date

2020-08-01 00:00:00

pages

101770

eissn

1877-7821

issn

1877-783X

pii

S1877-7821(20)30104-1

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Socioeconomic and administrative factors associated with treatment delay of esophageal and gastric carcinoma: Prospective study from a tertiary care centre in a developing country.