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. 2021 Oct 20;28(6):4247–4255. doi: 10.3390/curroncol28060360

Table 4.

Mean wait times before (2019) and during COVID-19 era (2020).

Interval Recommended Wait Times (days) 2019
n = 130
2020
n = 103
p-Value
n Mean (SD 1) Days n Mean (SD 1) Days
Referral → Lung cancer specialist 14 130 12 (14) 103 11 (13) 0.67
Referral → Diagnosis 30 130 59 (51) 103 59 (67) 0.94
Referral → First treatment 62 130 79 (47) 103 82 (71) 0.76
Wait for path report - 130 8 (7.3) 103 8 (7.6) 0.98
Decision-to-treat to FDT 2 31 130 52 (48) 103 51 (61) 0.94
Diagnosis to chemotherapy 28 64 38 (25) 39 34 (24) 0.95
Diagnosis to RT 3 42 24 35 (30) 38 46 (33) 0.31
Surgical consult to surgery 28 42 64 (43) 27 76 (83) 0.04
Wait for molecular test results 7 73 21.9 (9.9) 51 21.6 (8.7) 0.90

1 Standard deviation, 2 first definitive treatments, 3 radiation treatment.