Women wait longer for brain tumour diagnosis, report finds
Charity urges probe into ‘worrying’ differencesWOMEN with brain tumour symptoms are likely to wait longer for a diagnosis than men, a new report has found. The report from The Brain Tumour Charity says that overall, almost one in three brain tumour patients (31.3%) visited a doctor more than five times before the disease was diagnosed and nearly a quarter (24.2%) waited more than a year for a diagnosis. However, women were more than twice as likely as men to wait over a year for a diagnosis after first seeking medical advice for their symptoms. They were also more likely than men