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Aug 2026
Delayed treatment initiation is associated with worse survival in screening-detected patients with upper gastrointestinal cancer in rural China: a 10-year cohort study
Background Time to treatment initiation (TTI) following cancer detection is a critical component of effective cancer control. In low-resource and rural settings, delays in TTI often reflect health system constraints and may undermine the survival benefits of screening programmes. However, evidence on the association be...
Ruyue Liu, Lian-Lian Wu, Chengxu Long et al.
· Journal of Global Health · 0 citations