Quality management for lung cancer patients

E-Communication Session
Chairs: T. Blum (Berlin, Germany), R. Milroy (Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Time trends in treatment and survival of non-small cell lung cancer in The Netherlands M. A. van der Drift, H. E. Karim-Kos, S. Siesling, H. J. M. Groen, E. de Vries, M. L. G. Janssen-Heijnen (Nijmegen, Rotterdam, Enschede, Groningen, Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Non-adherence to treatment decisions made at a lung cancer multi-disciplinary meetings – Causes and frequency M. Hasan, A. McIver, J. Maguire, M. J. Walshaw, M. J. Ledson, C. M. Smyth (Wirral, United Kingdom)
Experience of lung cancer care: Timeliness and outcomes of the Cork Thoracic Oncology Group, southern Ireland M. E. O‘Brien, S. O‘Cathail, D. O‘Dwyer, B. Plant, D. Murphy, T. O‘Connor, M. Henry (Cork, Ireland)
Rapid access lung cancer clinic-is it worth the trouble? R. A. Mustafa, J. Mills, L. Donickey, J. Howells, S. Kearney, S. Mahmood, M. Munavvar (Preston, United Kingdom)
Is the speed & likelihood of diagnosis of lung cancer influenced by referral origin? A. Draper, A. Ho, S. Lovett, Y. E. Ong (London, United Kingdom)
Delays in the diagnosis and treatment of non-small cell lung cancer E. Sulu, O. Tasolar, H. Berk Takir, L. Yagci Tuncer, Z. Karakurt, A. Yilmaz (Istanbul, Turkey)
Delays in the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer: Can the length of time between the appearance of symptoms and diagnosis and treatment be shortened? N. Triller, V. Beres, A. Rozman (Golnik, Slovenia)
Retrospective study of a one-stop lung cancer clinic in a district general hospital over a 2-year period R. Saha, D. Crawley, S. Owen, M. Jones, P. Murray (Chertsey, United Kingdom)
An audit of lung cancer care highlighting the need for change in current practice in the district general hospital setting M. Gautam, R. Heaton (Wirral, Huddersfield, United Kingdom)
Patient satisfaction in specialised versus general respiratory clinics: A study N. Maddekar, S. Husain, O. M. Nwarkwo (Kent, , London, United Kingdom)
The effect of PET-CT before surgery in primary lung cancer, a retrospective quality assurance analysis N. C. G. Hansen, S. Lock Johansson, E. Jakobsen (Denmark)
Surgical exploration of the mediastinum in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): Adherence to the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) guidelines C. Obiols, R. Rami-Porta, S. Call, C. Pellicer, E. Martínez, M. Iglesias, R. Saumench, M. Serra, G. González, J. Belda (Spain)
Tissue diagnosis in lung cancer A. Collins, T. Jordan, H. Tan, C. Smyth, M. Ledson, M. Walshaw, K. Mohan (United States Of America)
Contamination during 4-5 years of annual CT screening in the Danish Lung Cancer Screening Trial (DLCST) Z. Saghir, H. Ashraf, A. Dirksen, J. H. Pedersen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Adherence to follow-up CT scans in patients with small pulmonary nodules, a retrospective study S. Lock Johansson, N. C. G. Hansen (Denmark)
An audit on the use of FDG-PET in the diagnosis and management of lung cancer in a district general hospital in the West Midlands, U.K. E. Willetts, A. Jayaratnam, E. Kulakov, S. L. Tan, A. Rajasekaran, O. Khair (Birmingham, London, United Kingdom)
Detection of lung cancer on CXR – A comparison of radiologist‘s performance S. Agarwal, I. Hussain, R. Rehman, N. Watson, N. Chandra (Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom)
A network lung cancer pathway in review: Are we choosing the right diagnostic approach? U. Oltmanns, B. Yung, S. Cooper, D. Powrie (Cambridge, Basildon, Colchester, Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom)