Time seems to crawl in periods of high-stakes uncertainty, such as for a job applicant waiting to find out whether they got their dream job or a high school senior waiting for word from colleges, or a patient awaiting biopsy results. And since COVID-19 entered our lives, the whole world...
Results: The median time from abnormal screen to diagnosis was 3.4 weeks with regional variation of 2.0 to 4.7 weeks; 10% waited 8.7 weeks or longer. For the 19% of women proceeding to open biopsy, the median diagnostic interval was 7.1 weeks with regional variation of 4.6 to 9.3 weeks; ...
So, I had the surgery and the results were… Wait for it… Nobody knows! Seriously. They did not find cancer, just inflammation. They even sent the biopsy to Mayo Clinic where several esteemed pathologists took a look and shrugged their shoulders. They don’t know what is going on. ...
Results are reported as means and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). All three patient groups experienced abnormally high mean PSS, IES, and CES-D scores, but only the breast biopsy group had highly abnormal anxiety levels. Breast biopsy patients had a significantly higher mean STAI score of 48 ...
AnxietyDepressionProstate-specific antigenProstate cancerIt is common to repeat prostate-specific antigen (PSA) measurements for men with intermediate PSA elevation before prostate biopsy. In this scenario, men with persistently elevated PSA values may have considerable psychological distress. We attempted ...
A total of 48 infertile women were recruited: 25 undergoing euploid single embryo transfer after trophectoderm biopsy and NGS, and 23 undergoing untested single embryo transfer. PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS. To measure the level of anxiety, the two groups completed the STAI (State Trait...
Results are reported as means and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). All three patient groups experienced abnormally high mean PSS, IES, and CES-D scores, but only the breast biopsy group had highly abnormal anxiety levels. Breast biopsy patients had a significantly higher mean STAI score of 48 ...
whether they got their dream job or a high school senior waiting for word from colleges, or a patient awaiting biopsy results. And since COVID-19 entered our lives, the whole world has gotten a crash course in waiting and worrying as we've all hoped for the end of this agonizing ...
The fourth quartile for timing from first mammogram to first biopsy was utilized to define delay in diagnosis. Multivariate analyses were used to evaluate the association between clinicopathologic variables and delays in diagnosis.ResultsWe analyzed 53,758 patients with stage 0鈥揑I BC who underwent ...
whether they got their dream job or a high school senior waiting for word from colleges, or a patient awaiting biopsy results. And since COVID-19 entered our lives, the whole world has gotten a crash course in waiting and worrying as we've all hoped for the end of this agonizing ...