Recommendation
Ensure that the psychological burden faced by lung cancer patients is addressed with pathways to access psychological support
services. Supportive and palliative care should be included in the lung cancer guidelines.
Rationale
Indicator 14 & 15: Poland neither includes psychological assessment nor mentions the psychological burden of lung cancer in their
lung cancer guidelines. Additionally, there is no referral pathway for either psychological support or supportive and palliative care
services.Recommendation
Cancer registries lack clinical data. In Poland, a clinical cancer registry could provide helpful data.
Rationale
Indicator 16: Poland’s cancer registry has been evaluated to be at a high quality at a regional basis (though not at a national
base), while its vital registration data collection systems have been evaluated as being of low quality. The system in Poland needs
improvement. Additionally, clinicians have suggested that a stronger clinical component to the cancer registry—including stage
at diagnosis and pathology data—could help to improve the overall care that lung cancer patients receive. Workshop participants
noted that there is a lack of adequate knowledge about new treatments for lung cancer in Poland, and that having an operational
clinical cancer registry can help to collect and synthesise up-to-date evidence of the impact of emerging therapies.Opportunity 5
Opportunity 6