Is increased time to diagnosis and treatment in symptomatic cancer associated with poorer outcomes? Systematic review

It is unclear whether more timely cancer diagnosis brings favourable outcomes, with much of the previous evidence, in some cancers, being equivocal. We set out to determine whether there is an association between time to diagnosis, treatment and clinical outcomes, across all cancers for symptomatic presentations.Systematic review of the literature and narrative synthesis.We included 177 articles reporting 209 studies. These studies varied in...