Quality improvement project addressing small cell lung cancer wait time from histological diagnosis to first treatment

Abstract

This project aimed to assess to what level our trust adhered to the newly proposed National Lung Cancer Audit standard that 90% of patients with small cell lung cancer histological diagnoses should receive their first treatment within 14 days of histology. A search was carried out of the cancer database to identify all small cell lung cancer diagnoses in the 3-month period from 1 October 2014 to 31 March 2015. For each of these patients …