Prioritising research into cancer treatment delays

doi:10.1136/bmj.m4261

Editorial

. 2020 Nov 4:371:m4261.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.m4261.

Prioritising research into cancer treatment delays

Ambica Parmar¹, Kelvin K W Chan^{2

3}

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¹ Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Room T2-058, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.
² Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Room T2-058, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada kelvin.chan@sunnybrook.ca.
³ Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control, Toronto, ON, Canada.

PMID: 33148613
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m4261

Editorial

Prioritising research into cancer treatment delays

Ambica Parmar et al. BMJ. 2020.

. 2020 Nov 4:371:m4261.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.m4261.

Authors

Ambica Parmar¹, Kelvin K W Chan^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Room T2-058, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.
² Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Room T2-058, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada kelvin.chan@sunnybrook.ca.
³ Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control, Toronto, ON, Canada.

PMID: 33148613
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m4261

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: The BMJ has judged that there are no disqualifying financial ties to commercial companies. The authors declare the following other interests: AP has received honorariums from Oncology Education.

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Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Hanna TP, King WD, Thibodeau S, Jalink M, Paulin GA, Harvey-Jones E, O'Sullivan DE, Booth CM, Sullivan R, Aggarwal A. Hanna TP, et al. BMJ. 2020 Nov 4;371:m4087. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m4087. BMJ. 2020. PMID: 33148535 Free PMC article.

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