Authors' response
- 1Department of Respiratory Medicine, David Evans Centre, City campus, Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, UK
- 2Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
- Correspondence to Dr Anna Rich, Department of Respiratory Medicine, David Evans Centre, City campus, Nottingham University Hospitals, NG2 7DQ, Nottingham, UK; anna.rich{at}nottingham.ac.uk
- Accepted 20 January 2012
- Published Online First 14 February 2012
- Lung cancer
- tobacco and the lung
- tuberculosis
- bronchiectasis
- bronchoscopy
- cystic fibrosis
- allergic alveolitis
- allergic lung disease
- asthma
- asthma epidemiology
- COPD epidemiology
- interstitial fibrosis
- sarcoidosis
Beckett and Woolhouse have investigated the inequality in access to surgery for individuals with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in England.1 2 They have used the number of patients entered into the National Lung Cancer Audit (NLCA) as a surrogate marker for …








