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Days to collection is defined as time from specimen collection to diagnosis. Yet, some patients have "days to collection" value significantly longer than "days to death". For example, patient 7eb18190-5a41-4637-9783-f81bbde499e4 (breast cancer) has "days to death" = 1388 and "days to collection" 4753. Its not possible they collected the specimen ~10 years after the patient died and its difficult to believe that the specimen would have been obtained ~12 years prior to diagnosis.. Please help.