US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer
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美国一项研究显示，过去十年间，该国六类癌症患者的手术等待时间持续延长。基于2012至2023年逾270万例非转移性I-III期癌症患者数据，研究人员发现乳腺癌、结肠癌、肺癌、胰腺癌、胃癌及食管癌的手术等待时间均较2012年有所增加。及时性被视为医疗质量的核心指标，手术延误与生存率下降及患者焦虑加剧相关。
As cancer treatments have advanced and outcomes have improved, one aspect of cancer care in the US has consistently worsened over the last decade: the wait time for surgery.
According to a study in JAMA Surgery, patients with one of six types of cancer—breast, colon, lung, pancreatic, gastric, and esophageal—have faced longer wait times for surgery than in 2012. Timeliness is considered a core metric of healthcare quality, and delays in cancer surgery have been linked to poorer outcomes, including reduced survival rates and increased patient anxiety and distress.
The findings of the new study are based on data from over 2.7 million patients who had been diagnosed with non-metastatic stage I–III cancers requiring surgery between 2012 and 2023. Researchers led by cancer expert Timothy Donahue at the University of California, Los Angeles, broke that time frame up into four groups: 2012–2015, 2016–2019, 2020–2021, and 2022–2023 to see how wait times have changed over the period.
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