STAT+: Cancer patients face longer wait times to begin treatment, according to new study

Waiting for treatment to start can be an excruciating period for cancer patients. There can be fears that the disease is spreading, or progressing to a point where therapies become less effective. Yet over the last few decades, the time cancer patients are waiting between diagnosis and treatment has steadily grown, according to a new study of more than 2.7 million patients. “What was striking was the consistency,” said Tim Donahue, the senior author on the study and a surgical oncologist at the ...