Table 4.

Elapsed times (median; in days) in cancer diagnosis.

	All patients	Patients with breast cancer	Patients with lung cancer	Patients with colorectal cancer	Difference between cancer sites
	(n = 307)	(n = 107)	(n = 91)	(n = 109)	p value∗
Symptoms-to-investigation time	47	41	40	64	0.143
Time between first  symptoms and making  appointment1	21	18	16	30	0.749
Time between making  appointment and start of  investigation1	11	10	9	12	0.593
Investigation-to-diagnosis time	32	46	29	24	0.092

¹Times between first symptoms and making appointment for these symptoms and between making appointment for the first symptoms and start of investigation could not be calculated in 28% of cases, because of the large amount of missing data for the date when the first appointment was made after noticing symptoms (24%).

^∗Median test.