Supportive care needs: are patients with lung cancer a neglected population?

While the unmet supportive care needs are well documented for some groups of cancer patients, relatively little is known about the levels and types of needs of lung cancer patients. The study aims to compare the levels of lung cancer patients' psychosocial needs with those of other cancer patients. A total of 1,492 consecutive patients in nine major public cancer treatment centres in New South Wales, Australia, were invited to participate in the...