Burden of prolonged treatment delay among patients with common cancers in the Philippines.

Purpose: Prolonged treatment delay often leads to adverse cancer prognosis. However, the demographic and clinical predictors of higher treatment delay burden in the Philippines have not been thoroughly evaluated.

Methods: We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study on patients diagnosed with common cancers who received cancer treatment, to quantify the burden of prolonged treatment delay in the Philippines among this population.