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Survival of Australian lung cancer patients and the impact of distance from and attendance at a thoracic specialist centre: a data linkage study

29 Jul 2014

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BACKGROUND: Lung cancer patients have better survival when treated in thoracic surgical (specialist) centres. AIMS: To determine whether outcome of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients is poorer with increasing distance to the nearest accessible specialist hospital (NASH). METHODS: We linked cancer registry, hospital and death records of 23,871 NSCLC patients; 3240 localised, 2435 regional and 3540 distant...

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PMID: 25074705
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-205554

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