Breast Cancer: Delays Of Access To Diagnosis And Treatment Retrospective Study-Batna, Algeria August 2015-February 2016

The objective of this study was to quantify the delays in access to diagnosis and treatment of women with breast cancer who are managed at the anticancer center of Batna, Algeria. This was a descriptive retrospective study conducted during the period August 2015 to February 2016. In order to trace the history of the journey from the first signs of cancer to the first treatments, a questionnaire was filled in from the medical files and completed by an interview with the patients. A total of 267 patients were included in the study. The median time to management was 4.5 months. The patient delay had a median of 15 days. The median time of the health system was 3 months. The median time to diagnose was 34 days. Delays of access to diagnosis and treatment are generally long.