BREATHING IN A NEW ERA
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LUNG CANCER POLICIES ACROSS EUROPEFresh thinking: opportunities for
improvement
Improve cancer registries. Cancer registries
should not just hold data on incidence and stage
at diagnosis, but also treatment received and
outcomes. There are examples of good practice:
the National Lung Cancer Audit in England and
Wales satisfies the need for clinically focused
care, and in France the Health Data Hub will
encompass a clinical registry as well as information
on treatment and reimbursement. In Norway,
the INSPIRE project was launched to improve the
quality of lung cancer data. These approaches hold
lessons for other countries looking to improve the
quality of the data collected.
Is lung cancer receiving sufficient attention?
Although there is always competition for funding,
lung cancer has long been under-addressed. This
may partly be due to unconscious stigma at both
an individual and institutional level. Is lung cancer
sufficiently prioritised in your country?