Table 1.
Sociodemographic, clinical, and delay characteristics of study participants (n = 150) recruited from Dr. Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta in 2018–2021.
Fig 1.
Timeline sketch of breast cancer presentation and diagnosis.
Participants were observed to have a 2-month median presentation time and 1-month diagnosis time. The median time to diagnosis from initial symptom was 7 months. 43.3% of respondents delayed the consultation by ≥3 months and 64.7% had diagnosis confirmation by ≥1 month.
Table 2.
Median presentation, diagnosis, and overall delay for all participants (n = 150) by stage at diagnosis.
Table 3.
Sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with ≥3 months presentation delay in breast cancer patients.
Table 4.
Sociodemographic, clinical factors and service utilization associated with ≥1 month diagnosis delay in breast cancer patients.
Table 5.
Effect of presentation and diagnosis delay on likelihood of stage III-IV breast cancer at point of diagnosis.
Table 6.
Reasons provided by breast cancer patients for delays of ≥3 months’ presentation (n = 65).