Hot Topics: lung cancer
Posted on: 23 Apr 2019NICE has recently released guidance entitled ‘Lung cancer: diagnosis and management’ (NG122).
Steve Holmes captures the two key points of greatest interest to primary care clinicians:
- Smoking cessation: stressing the importance of offering Very Brief Advice, professional support and pharmacotherapy
- Early diagnosis: identifying those symptoms warranting urgent referral for CT scan and assessment
Listen to the podcast below.