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September 16, 2025

Diagnostic Routes and Health Disparities in Advanced Colorectal Cancer: Evidence from a Nationwide Study in China

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KYKexin YiYLYin LiuHXHuifang Xu

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Cross-sectional study reveals diagnostic routes impact biomarker testing and HRQOL in advanced colorectal cancer patients.

Key Points

  • The study shows 87.0% of patients were diagnosed via the symptomatic pathway, highlighting diagnosis patterns.
  • A significant predictor of non-symptomatic presentations is higher educational attainment, indicating health access issues.
  • Patients on the comorbid pathway had a 1.40 odds ratio of receiving biomarker testing, suggesting advantages in testing access.
  • Both non-symptomatic routes were notably linked to greater declines in physical functioning post-treatment, highlighting health disparities.

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Yi et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d42645713b0b5dfea6cd87https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7290862/v1
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