Association Between Waiting Time from Diagnosis to Treatment and Survival in Patients with Curable Gastric Cancer: A Population-Based Study in the Netherlands.

Hylke J F BrenkmanE VisserP S N van RossumS SieslingR van HillegersbergJ P Ruurda

Published in: Annals of surgical oncology (2017)

Longer WT until the start of curative treatment for gastric cancer is not associated with worse OS. These results could help to put WT into perspective as indicator of quality of care and reassure patients with gastric cancer.

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