Clearer picture needed on lung cancer, experts say

AUDITS of centres where people are treated for lung cancer should be published so that cure rates can be compared.

That’s one of the procedures called for by cancer experts attending a three-day lung cancer conference which starts today.

Medical experts attending the major international conference in Dublin will emphasise the need to treat all lung cancer patients in specialist cancer units. They also want radical surgery and chemotherapy to become the accepted standard of care because it offers a higher cure rate.