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| Title |
Symptoms and other factors associated with time to diagnosis and stage of lung cancer: a prospective cohort study
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| Published in |
British Journal of Cancer, March 2015
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| DOI | 10.1038/bjc.2015.30 |
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| Authors |
F M Walter, G Rubin, C Bankhead, H C Morris, N Hall, K Mills, C Dobson, R C Rintoul, W Hamilton, J Emery |
| Abstract |
Background:This prospective cohort study aimed to identify symptom and patient factors that influence time to lung cancer diagnosis and stage at diagnosis.Methods:Data relating to symptoms were collected from patients upon referral with symptoms suspicious of lung cancer in two English regions; we also examined primary care and hospital records for diagnostic routes and diagnoses. Descriptive and regression analyses were used to investigate associations between symptoms and patient factors with diagnostic intervals and stage.Results:Among 963 participants, 15.9% were diagnosed with primary lung cancer, 5.9% with other thoracic malignancies and 78.2% with non-malignant conditions. Only half the cohort had an isolated first symptom (475, 49.3%); synchronous first symptoms were common. Haemoptysis, reported by 21.6% of cases, was the only initial symptom associated with cancer. Diagnostic intervals were shorter for cancer than non-cancer diagnoses (91 vs 124 days, P=0.037) and for late-stage than early-stage cancer (106 vs 168 days, P=0.02). Chest/shoulder pain was the only first symptom with a shorter diagnostic interval for cancer compared with non-cancer diagnoses (P=0.003).Conclusions:Haemoptysis is the strongest symptom predictor of lung cancer but occurs in only a fifth of patients. Programmes for expediting earlier diagnosis need to focus on multiple symptoms and their evolution.British Journal of Cancer advance online publication, 3 March 2015; doi:10.1038/bjc.2015.30 www.bjcancer.com. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 230 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Bachelor | 32 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 31 | 13% |
| Researcher | 24 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 9% |
| Other | 16 | 7% |
| Other | 37 | 16% |
| Unknown | 70 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 88 | 38% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 16 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 14 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 2% |
| Psychology | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 23 | 10% |
| Unknown | 81 | 35% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 September 2022.
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