Table 2.

Access to care for breast cancer as measured by number of days from general practitioner's referral letter to clinic visit, from first clinic visit to surgery, and inpatient stay at time of initial surgery for women living in affluent and deprived areas

	Affluent			Deprived		Mann-Whitney test
	No of women	Median (interquartile range) delay (days)		No of women	Median (interquartile range) delay (days)
Time from referral letter to clinic visit*	117	6 (1-13)		183	7 (4-20)	Z=−2.72 P=0.006
Time between first clinic visit and surgery*	129	16 (9-24)		203	17 (10-25)	Z=−1.53 P=0.13
Length of hospital stay at time of initial surgery	142	7 (5-8)		215	6 (5-8)	Z=−1.04 P=0.29

^*Data presented only for women with available referral letter.