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Factors predicting delayed presentation of symptomatic breast cancer: a systematic review.
Amanda-Jane Ramirez,AM Westcombe,Caroline Burgess,Stephen Sutton,Peter Littlejohns,Michael Richards +5 more
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There was strong evidence for an association between older age and delay by patients, and strong evidence that marital status was unrelated to delays by Patients, and younger age and presentation with a breast symptom other than a lump were strong risk factors for delays by providers.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 1999-04-03. It has received 497 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Evidence-based medicine & Risk factor.read more
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Evaluation of the quality of prognosis studies in systematic reviews.
TL;DR: A review of reviews to describe methods used to assess the quality of prognosis studies and to describe how well current practices assess potential biases is to develop recommendations to guide future quality appraisal.
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Influence of delay on survival in patients with breast cancer: a systematic review
TL;DR: Delays of 3-6 months are associated with lower survival and efforts should be made to keep delays by patients and providers to a minimum, and longer delays were associated with more advanced stage.
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Social capital and mental illness: a systematic review
TL;DR: Current evidence is inadequate to inform the development of specific social capital interventions to combat mental illness, and individual and ecological social capital may measure different aspects of the social environment.
Systems to Rate the Strength of Scientific Evidence: Summary
TL;DR: Systematic approaches to assessing the strength of scientific evidence allow evaluation of either individual articles or entire bodies of research on a particular subject, for use in making evidence-based health-care decisions.
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Origins of socio-economic inequalities in cancer survival: a review
TL;DR: Socio-economic differences in cancer survival are now well documented and the explanatory power of stage at diagnosis, although great, should not detract from the evidence of differential treatment between social groups.
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Influence of delay on survival in patients with breast cancer: a systematic review
TL;DR: Delays of 3-6 months are associated with lower survival and efforts should be made to keep delays by patients and providers to a minimum, and longer delays were associated with more advanced stage.
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Checklists for review articles.
TL;DR: It is essential that both providers and users appraise the validity of review articles, and checklists can help prevent important errors in this process.
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ABC of breast diseases
TL;DR: This work aims to provide arobust and objective assessment of the prognostic factors and underlying mechanisms of breast cancer recurrence and disease progression that have been identified in the cohort of patients treated for breast cancer over a 12-year period.
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Who and what influences delayed presentation in breast cancer
TL;DR: A large multicentre study is now warranted to confirm the extent and determinants of patient and general practitioner delay in the presentation of breast cancer and the increasing evidence that delay adversely affects survival.
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Delay versus help seeking for breast cancer symptoms: A critical review of the literature on patient and provider delay.
TL;DR: A review of the literature on patient and provider delay published since 1975 identifies the factors that have been advanced as contributing to patient and providers delay, evaluating the support for each of these reported findings.