Abstract:Background and Objective: The National Lung Cancer Audit (NLCA) 2022 report showed that for England in 2019, the curative treatment rates of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with stage I/II disease and good performance status were 81%, this metric fell to 73% in 2020 with resection rates falling from 20% to 15%. The impact of COVID-19 could well have influenced this and indeed lung cancer patients diagnosed in 2020 were more likely to have a worse performance status, diagnosed as emergency presentat… Show more
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