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Are We Achieving the Current Waiting Time Targets in Lung Cancer Treatment?

Are We Achieving the Current Waiting Time Targets in Lung Cancer Treatment? EDITORIAL Are We Achieving the Current Waiting Time Targets in Lung Cancer Treatment? Sam Janes, PhD, MRCP,* and Stephen Spiro, MD, FRCP† ost large hospitals in the United Kingdom will see 100 to 150 new cases of lung Mcancer a year, mostly as new outpatient referrals, but as much as 30% of patients are admitted through the emergency department to be cared for by a variety of disciplines. So, it is a significant load, and, for a disease for which the median survival is 8 to 9 months, it needs prompt and expert attention. Before the National Cancer Plan in 1997, there was no system of prioritization for suspected cancer referrals, and for those patients admitted, much depended on the specialty in charge as to what might happen and at what pace (let alone whether a respiratory referral was made!). The British government has made cancer care a priority, basically because British 5-year survival figures were considered inferior to those of other comparable European and western countries for several cancer types and because there was inadequate order in the organization of day-to-day cancer care. As discussed in the commentary by Devbhandari et al. in this issue of The Journal, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Thoracic Oncology Wolters Kluwer Health

Are We Achieving the Current Waiting Time Targets in Lung Cancer Treatment?

Spiro, Stephen
Journal of Thoracic Oncology , Volume 2 (7) – Jul 1, 2007
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1556-0864
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EDITORIAL Are We Achieving the Current Waiting Time Targets in Lung Cancer Treatment? Sam Janes, PhD, MRCP,* and Stephen Spiro, MD, FRCP† ost large hospitals in the United Kingdom will see 100 to 150 new cases of lung Mcancer a year, mostly as new outpatient referrals, but as much as 30% of patients are admitted through the emergency department to be cared for by a variety of disciplines. So, it is a significant load, and, for a disease for which the median survival is 8 to 9 months, it needs prompt and expert attention. Before the National Cancer Plan in 1997, there was no system of prioritization for suspected cancer referrals, and for those patients admitted, much depended on the specialty in charge as to what might happen and at what pace (let alone whether a respiratory referral was made!). The British government has made cancer care a priority, basically because British 5-year survival figures were considered inferior to those of other comparable European and western countries for several cancer types and because there was inadequate order in the organization of day-to-day cancer care. As discussed in the commentary by Devbhandari et al. in this issue of The Journal,

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Published: Jul 1, 2007

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