Table 3. The distribution of duration of symptoms (in months) and stage by phenotypes, Uganda delay study, 2013.
Duration of symptoms | Over all | Early stage n=34 |
Late stage n=139 |
Luminal A n=68 |
Luminal B n=12 |
HER2+ n=33 |
TNBC n=45 |
Missing n=25 |
P value |
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Mean duration | 29 | 21 | 23 | 26 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 23 | - |
Median duration | 12 | 12 | 12 | 21 | 24 | 12 | 12 | 24 | |
SD | 26 | 21 | 28 | 30 | 10 | 18 | 33 | 16 | |
Percentiles | |||||||||
25 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 9 | - |
50 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 21 | 24 | 12 | 12 | 24 | |
75 | 24 | 24 | 30 | 34 | 24 | 27 | 24 | 36 | |
Missing | - | 6 | 10 | 7 | - | 2 | 5 | - | |
Duration categories | 0.370 | ||||||||
<3 months | 6 | 0 | 2 | 6 | |||||
3-6 months | 7 | 1 | 5 | 7 | |||||
6-12 months | 12 | 3 | 12 | 12 | |||||
12-24 months | 24 | 6 | 6 | 12 | |||||
>24 months | 19 | 1 | 9 | 9 | |||||
Total | 68 | 11 | 34 | 46 | |||||
Duration by stage at diagnosis | |||||||||
I | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | <0.001 | ||||
II | 18 | 3 | 4 | 2 | |||||
III | 41 | 6 | 26 | 37 | |||||
IV | 6 | 2 | 5 | 6 | |||||
Total | 73 | 12 | 36 | 47 |