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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
Delays in treatment initiation represent a critical health system bottleneck that significantly compromises long-term survival among screening-detected UGC patients and a TTI threshold of 30 days may serve as a pragmatic quality-of-care indicator.
Ru-Yue Liu, Lian-Lian Wu, Cheng-Xu Long et al.
· Journal of Global Health · 0 citations