Investigations and treatment
| Proportion of patients (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | NSCLC | SCLC | NPD | |
| NSCLC=non-small cell lung cancer; SCLC=small cell lung cancer; NPD=no pathological diagnosis. | ||||
| *This was defined as no active treatment (surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy) at any stage of the patient’s illness from diagnosis to death or last follow up. | ||||
| Investigation type | ||||
| Chest radiography | 99 | 99 | 100 | 100 |
| Chest CT scan | 91 | 92 | 91 | 78 |
| Liver imaging | 57 | 54 | 77 | 51 |
| Brain CT scan | 20 | 19 | 32 | 10 |
| Bone scan | 36 | 36 | 55 | 10 |
| Bronchoscopy | 56 | 62 | 49 | 16 |
| Mediastinoscopy/mediastinotomy | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| PET scan | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Treatment | ||||
| No treatment* | 28 | 25 | 13 | 80 |
| Radiotherapy only | 35 | 42 | 3 | 20 |
| Radiotherapy and chemotherapy | 12 | 6 | 50 | 0 |
| Surgery only | 9 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| Surgery and radiotherapy | 7 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| Chemotherapy alone | 6 | 2 | 28 | 0 |
| Surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Surgery and chemotherapy | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |