Cancer won't wait: A Cancer Australia Perspective
TOGA Podcast
English - November 25, 2020 16:43 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBMedicine Health & Fitness lung cancer oncology toga Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Dorothy Keefe, CEO of Cancer Australia and Mark Scott discuss the COVID impact on diagnosing and treating lung cancer patients – a 4 week delay in diagnosis makes a difference. The red flag symptoms of lung cancer need increased education, especially for the younger, non-smoking women, who are not always aware that a lung cancer diagnosis is possible. GP awareness and early screening is also important here. We are very good at treating breast cancer, colorectal cancer and prostate cancer – we need more focus to reach this point with lung cancer. Developing a specific thoracic oncology research group will enable such a focus, especially a multidisciplinary, patient centric group such as TOGA.