Time intervals in the pathway to diagnosis and treatment of patients with breast and gynecological cancer

Most patients with breast and/or gynecological cancer are diagnosed in the early stages of the disease, except in the case of ovarian cancer. Most breast and cervical tumors are not diagnosed through screening. The time interval that most influences the total interval is the diagnostic interval, which includes the primary care interval. The treatment interval is high in most tumors, exceeding the recommended time. The results provide useful information for proposing improvements in access to diagnostic and therapeutic resources, as well as preferential referral circuits to improve early detection and prognosis of the disease.