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Lung cancer survival and stage at diagnosis in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK: a population-based study, 2004–2007
Thorax · 2013 · Vol. 68(6) · pp. 551–564
Sarah Walters✉(London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)Camille Maringe(Cancer Research UK)Michel P. Coleman(Cancer Research UK)Michael Peake(University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust)John Butler(Royal Marsden Hospital)Nicholas Young(University of Bristol)Stefan Bergström(Gävle Hospital)Louise Hanna(Velindre NHS Trust)Erik Jakobsen(Odense University Hospital)Karl Kölbeck(Karolinska University Hospital)Stein Sundstrøm(St Olav's University Hospital)Gerda Engholm(Danish Cancer Society)Anna Gavin(The Northern Ireland Cancer Centre)Marianne L. Gjerstorff(Statens Serum Institut)Juanita Hatcher(Alberta Health Services)Tom Børge Johannesen(Cancer Registry of Norway)Karen M. Linklater(Blood Cancer UK)Colleen McGahan(BC Cancer Agency)John StewardElizabeth Tracey(Cancer Institute of New South Wales)Donna Turner(CancerCare Manitoba)Michael A. Richards(Action Cancer)Bernard Rachet(Cancer Research UK)the ICBP Module 1 Working Group
Abstract
There are comparability issues when using population-based data but, even given these constraints, this study shows that, while differences in stage at diagnosis explain some of the international variation in overall lung cancer survival, wide disparities in stage-specific survival exist, suggesting that other factors are also important such as differences in treatment. Stage should be included in international cancer survival studies and the comparability of population-based data should be improved.
Lung Cancer Diagnosis and TreatmentLung Cancer Treatments and MutationsLung Cancer Research StudiesMedicineStage (stratigraphy)Lung cancerPopulationCancerDanishDemographyCancer survivalEnvironmental healthOncology
MeSH terms
AdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAustraliaCanadaDenmarkFemaleHumansLung NeoplasmsMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm StagingNorwayPopulation Surveillance
Funding
- Cancer Research UK
- Public Health Agency
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565
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