PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Ahmet Yurdakul AU - Celalettin Kocatürk AU - Hülya Bayiz AU - Soner Gürsoy AU - Ahmet Bircan AU - Aysenaz Özcan AU - Atilla Akkoçlu AU - Funda Uluorman AU - Pinar Çelik AU - Deniz Köksal AU - Bahar Ulubas AU - Eylem Sercan AU - Ömer Özbudak AU - Tuncay Göksel AU - Tugba Önalan AU - Esra Yamansavci AU - Figen Türk AU - Gökhan Yuncu AU - Çigdem Çopuraslan AU - Tugba Mardal AU - Esin Tuncay AU - Altemur Karamustafaoglu AU - Pinar Yildiz AU - Funda Seçik AU - Muhammet Kaplan AU - Emel Çaglar AU - Mediha Ortaköylü AU - Mine Önal AU - Akif Turna AU - Evlin Hekimoglu AU - Levent Dalar AU - Sedat Altin AU - Meral Gülhan AU - Eylem Akpinar AU - Ismail Savas AU - Nalan Firat AU - Güngör Çamsari AU - Gülçihan Özkan AU - Erdogan Çetinkaya AU - Emine Kamiloglu AU - Bülent Çelik AU - Yavuz Havlucu TI - Patient and doctor delays in the diagnosis and treatment of non-small cell lung cancer in Turkey DP - 2013 Sep 01 TA - European Respiratory Journal PG - 4830 VI - 42 IP - Suppl 57 4099 - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/42/Suppl_57/4830.short 4100 - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/42/Suppl_57/4830.full SO - Eur Respir J2013 Sep 01; 42 AB - OBJECTIVE: Early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer is very important for the prognosis of the patients with lung cancer. This study was undertaken to investigate patient delay and doctor delay in the diagnosis and the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer. In addition, the factors effect of these delays was researched.MATERIAL and METHOD: Between May 2010-May 2011 years, mean age 61.5±10.1, 1016 patients were enrolled prospectively in this study from the different countries in Turkey. 926 (91.1%) of the patients were male and 90 (8.9%) were female.RESULTS: Patient delay was found 49.96±96.96 days, doctor delay was found 87.71±99.59 days and total delay was found 131.3±135.18 days. Referral delay was found 61.55±127.23 days, diagnostic delay was found 20.35±44.46 days and treatment delay was found 24.37±54.97 days. Patient delay was more frequently in the workers but referral delay was more frequent in patients living in the village (p<0.05). We determined that referral delay, doctor delay and total delay were increased as the number of doctors who were applied by the patients was increased (p<0.05). In addition, we determined that diagnostic and treatment delay were more frequently in the early stage NSCLC patients (p<0.05).DISCUSSION: In conclusion, people must be educated about lung cancer because patient delay is very longer. To decrease doctor delay, education in the first step is a significant point and to decrease chest specialists delay, multidisipliner management and algorithims must be used regularly.