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Among 20,654 treated patients in the Department of Health's Rizal Cancer Registry, about a third waited more than 30 days for their first cancer treatment and one in five more than 90 days, with longer waits for children and young people, men, patients at non-private hospitals and those with more advanced cancer.
A population-based retrospective cohort of 20,654 patients diagnosed from 1990 to 2012 with ten common cancers who received treatment, from the Department of Health Rizal Cancer Registry, which the authors describe as the country's first population-based registry (established 1974, covering about 7 million people by 2012). Poisson regression with robust variance identified predictors of delays beyond 30, 60 and 90 days, overall and by first treatment.
It names the groups a national navigation programme would reach first if the aim is to shorten waits for treatment.
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