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Differences in Primary Care Clinicians' Approach to Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Compared with Breast Cancer  Timothy R. Wassenaar, MD, Jens C.

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1 Differences in Primary Care Clinicians' Approach to Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Compared with Breast Cancer  Timothy R. Wassenaar, MD, Jens C. Eickhoff, PhD, Daniel R. Jarzemsky, MD, Stevens S. Smith, PhD, Marilyn L. Larson, MS, Joan H. Schiller, MD  Journal of Thoracic Oncology  Volume 2, Issue 8, Pages (August 2007) DOI: /JTO.0b013e3180cc2599 Copyright © 2007 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

2 FIGURE 1 Number of patients with advanced-stage breast or lung cancer and with both good (<2) and poor (>2) performance status who would be referred to a medical oncologist. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2007 2, DOI: ( /JTO.0b013e3180cc2599) Copyright © 2007 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

3 FIGURE 2 Percentage of physicians who felt that the patients with both early-stage and metastatic disease would have improved survival with chemotherapy. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2007 2, DOI: ( /JTO.0b013e3180cc2599) Copyright © 2007 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

4 FIGURE 3 Percentage of physicians who stated that they would continue to observe their patients with uncontrolled pain every 1 to 2 weeks. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2007 2, DOI: ( /JTO.0b013e3180cc2599) Copyright © 2007 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions


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