Recommendation
Lung cancer guidelines should include a referral pathway for supportive and palliative care. Also, there is no evidence that
oncologists have received training in supportive or palliative care. Training should be included in the oncology curriculum.
Rationale
Indicator 15: While the German lung cancer guidelines discuss palliative care, the Austrian guidelines do not mention a referral
pathway for supportive or palliative care. Similarly, there is currently no systematic training for Austrian oncologists in the area
of supportive or palliative care. Austria is planning to adopt the ESMO curriculum but there is no evidence to show that they have
done so, nor have they identified a date by which they plan to do so.Recommendation
Cancer registries lack clinical data. In Austria, a clinical cancer registry could provide helpful data.
Rationale
Indicator 16: Austria’s cancer registry and vital registration data collection systems have been evaluated as being of high quality.
Clinicians have suggested that a stronger clinical component to the cancer registry could help to improve the overall care that
lung cancer patients receive. Workshop participants felt that clinicians in Austria would benefit from such an improvement.Opportunity 6
Opportunity 7