Abstract
In 1984 Mackillop et al.1 sent a questionnaire to physicians and surgeons in Ontario who treated lung cancer. The questionnaire asked the doctors to consider themselves as patients with lung cancer, as specified in a number of clinical scenarios, and to describe the treatment they would wish to receive. One scenario described asymptomatic, locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. A majority of the respondents (61 percent) preferred treatment with radiotherapy, and 22 percent preferred no immediate treatment; only 5 percent of the respondents chose chemotherapy. We do not know the reasons for these choices, but they were presumably influenced by randomized . . .
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