Gender inequalities in the promptness of diagnosis of bladder and renal cancer after symptomatic presentation: evidence from secondary analysis of an English primary care audit survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore whether women experience greater delays in the diagnosis of bladder and renal cancer when first presenting to a general practitioner with symptoms caused by those cancers and potential reasons for such gender inequalities.

Design

Prospective national audit survey of cancer diagnosis.

Setting

English primary care (2009-2010).

Participants

920 patients with bladder and 398 patients with renal cancer (252 (27%) and 165 (42%), respectively, were women).

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Proportion of patients with three or more pre-referral consultations; number of days from first presentation to referral; proportion of patients who presented with haematuria and proportion of patients investigated in primary care.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Lyratzopoulos G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3693425 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature