Research Article
Waiting Times for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis in a Nigerian Population
Table 3
Crosstabulation of various timelines with the type of laboratory where histology was done.
| | | Private lab
| Public lab
| value | Frequency (%) | Frequency (%) |
| Biopsy to histology | <8 days | 6 (7.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0.000 | 8–14 days | 25 (31.3) | 9 (6.9) | >14 days | 49 (61.3) | 122 (93.1) | | | | 0.007 | Median | 17.00 (18.00) | 30.00 (28.00) | 0.000 |
| Presentation to treatment | <28 days | 17 (21.3) | 8 (6.1) | 0.000 | 28–90 days | 39 (48.8) | 54 (41.2) | >90days | 24 (30.0) | 69 (52.7) | | | | 0.005 | Median | 55.00 (71.00) | 91.00 (93.00) | 0.000 |
| Referred to treatment | <28 days | 13 (16.3) | 5 (3.8) | 0.000 | 28–90 days | 36 (45.0) | 41 (31.3) | >90 days | 31 (38.8) | 85 (64.9) | | | | 0.004 | Median | 71.50 (96.25) | 119.00 (121.00) | 0.001 |
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