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Fig. 1

From: Factors related to breast cancer detection mode and time to diagnosis in Alberta, Canada: a population-based retrospective cohort study

Fig. 1

An illustration of the diagnostic interval for screen and symptom detected breast cancers. For the screen-detected cancers (panel a), the diagnostic interval is the time between the date of diagnosis and the date of the screening mammogram, a maximum of 6 months. For the symptom-detected cancers (panel b), the diagnostic interval is the time between the date of diagnosis and the date of the most proximal GP visit prior to the first diagnostic test, a maximum of 12 months

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