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. 2024 Mar 18;75:103714. doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2024.103714

Table 1.

Number of included studies by country and time to diagnosis and/or treatment.

Region Country World Bank Classification No of Studies Conducted
Total No of Studies Conducted
Time to Diagnosis
Time to Treatment Both Time to Diagnosis & Treatment
Pre-contact Interval Post-contact Interval
Sub Saharan Africa 5 2 2 5
1 Mali [20] LIC 1 1 1 1 1
2 Zambia [19,30] LIC 2a 2a 0 0 2a
3 Uganda [19,30] LIC 2a 2a 0 0 2a
4 Nigeria [19,30] LMIC 2a 2a 0 0 2a
5 Namibia [19,30] HMIC 2a 2a 0 0 2a
6 Rwanda [29] LIC 1 1 0 0 1
7 Kenya [34] LMIC 1 1 1 1 1
Middle East and North Africa 1 1 1 1
8 Syria [35] LIC 1 1 1 1 1
East Asia and Pacific 2 2 1 3
9 Malaysia [25,28] HMIC 1 1 2 1 2
10 Thailand [15] HMIC 1 1 0 0 1
South Asia 3 3 3 3
11 Pakistan [24] LMIC 1 1 1 1 1
12 Sri Lanka [21,22] LMIC 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b
Latin America and Caribbean 3 7 1 9
13 Brazil [[16], [17], [18],26,27,32,33] HMIC 0 2 6 1 7
14 Mexico [23,31] HMIC 1 1 1 0 2
Total 14 15 8 21

LIC: low-income countries; LMIC: Low middle-income countries; HMIC: High middle-income countries.

a

Multicentric and two studies conducted with same participants (Both studies were counted but the time interval was counted/included only once).

b

Two studies conducted with the same participants.