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BackgroundThe 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 to tackle this issue by analyzing a prospective series of 351 consecutive children and adolescents with solid malignancies using innovative statistical tools.
MethodsTo address the nonlinear complexity of the association...
BackgroundThe awareness that adolescents can have cancer is probably insufficient, not only among teenagers and their families, but also among physicians, and adolescent patients are reportedly often referred to qualified cancer institutes after a considerable delay.
ProcedureA prospective series of 425 patients (28% of them adolescents) with solid tumors was analyzed to investigate the correlation...
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