Does the Primary Care Experience Influence the Cancer Diagnostic Process?

Table 7

Factors associated with having metastases at initial cancer diagnosis ().

	OR	CI 90%	value
Age	1.01	[0.98–1.03	0.757
Cancer site (ref.: breast)
Lung	16.96	[6.45–44.62	<0.001
Colorectal	7.48	[2.85–19.66	0.001
Symptoms-to-investigation time^1	1.05	[0.99–1.11	0.155
Investigation-to-diagnosis time^1	0.90	[0.79–1.03	0.195

In this model, elapsed times are continuous variables.