Table 1. Delay in days and specification of proportion (%) of patients with delay >3, 6 and 12 months for consecutive incident cancers of all types sampled from the regional Hospital Discharge Registry in Aarhus County from 1 September 2004 to 31 August 2005.

	Patient delay	Doctor delay	System delay	Total delay
Median (IQI)	21 days (7–56 days)	0 days (0–2 days)	55 days (32–93 days)	98 days (57–168 days)
% of patients with delay >3 months	15.3%	3.5%	25.8%	53.7%
% of patients with delay >6 months	6.8%	1.6%	7.5%	21.5%
% of patients with delay >1 year	2.8%	0.5%	2.6%	8.7%

Abbreviation: IQI=interquartile interval.