Impact of a colorectal cancer screening program implantation on delays and prognosis of non-screening detected colorectal cancer

Table 2 Delay to colorectal cancer diagnosis in the pre and post-implantation cohorts

	Pre-implantation cohort (n = 322)	Post-implantation cohort (n = 285)	P value1
Global diagnostic delay (d)	106.64 ± 148.84	82.84 ± 109.31	0.02
Primary healthcare delay (d)	35.88 ± 84.47	39.28 ± 98.03	0.7
Referral delay (d)	13.18 ± 25.77	16.02 ± 41.63	0.4
Secondary healthcare delay (d)	46.01 ± 111.65	29.20 ± 60.83	0.02
Colonoscopy delay (d)	43.71 ± 78.22	37.75 ± 53.37	0.3

¹Statistical significance in the univariate analysis using the Student t test.