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Clinical focus on lung cancer

24 May 2006

Figure 1 shows the cancer system that impact a snapshot of the quality of incidence of lung cancer by on the care that lung cancer care for lung cancer patients gender over the past 10 years. [...] The It is hoped that this monograph is higher in men, there has been practice patterns are shown will assist those responsible a steady decrease in the inci- against the backdrop of the for care delivery to achieve dence of lung cancer in men in evidence-based guidelines the best possible results for the past 10 years. [...] The survival rate Advanced NSCLC The DSG has completed and depends on factors such as the Patients are most commonly published 14 guidelines on size of the tumour, the extent referred to a cancer treatment various aspects of treatment of lymph node involvement by facility with a diagnosis of cancer for different forms and stages cancer found at surgery and the when the disease is considered of lun [...] The lower fraction number may also be due to administrative databases — the the radiotherapeutic management Oncology Patient Information of Stage III non-small cell lung errors of coding the intent of cancer (NSCLC) patients treated treatment, failure to complete System and the New Drug Funding Program’s databases — with curative intent at each the prescribed course of radiation therapy, a belief [...] The the wait times and patients associated with cancer centres table below shows the median requiring radical therapy in Ontario and published in the wait time from referral to start may be expected to have Canadian Medical Association of treatment for lung cancer, wait times that are longer Journal in August of 2001, the by centre, for the three-month than those posted.
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Authors

Evans, William K

Pages
20
Published in
Canada

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