Effect of care-delivery delay on the survival of Mexican women with breast cancer

• Main Authors: Angélica Ángeles-Llerenas (Author), Gabriela Torres-Mejía (Author), Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce (Author), Santos Uscanga-Sánchez (Author), Fernando Mainero-Ratchelous (Author), Juan Eugenio Hernández-Ávila (Author), Evangelina Morales-Carmona (Author), Mauricio Hernández-Ávila (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective. To estimate the effect of care-delivery delays on survival among women with breast cancer. Materials and methods. A retrospective analysis of 854 women attending 11 hospitals from 2007-2009 was carried out. Kaplan-Meier estimators and a Cox proportional-risk model were employed. Results....