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BTOG 2026 | Lung cancer nurses drive research and evidence-based care
Bing Smith, BSc, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK, emphasizes the crucial role of lung cancer nurses in providing evidence-based care and highlights the importance of their involvement in research to ensure high-quality outcomes. The best research comes from randomized controlled trials conducted across a wide population, and therefore, it is essential to have a large team of research-aware healthcare professionals, including lung cancer nurses, who can support and disseminate research findings to inform day-to-day practice. This interview took place at the 2026 British Thoracic Oncology Group (BTOG) congress in Edinburgh, UK.
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That’s a really good question. I think lung cancer nurses, as we are the key workers for our patients. It’s important and paramount, really, that we provide care which is evidence-based and where the evidence is from, from the research. So that’s why it’s important for us to get involved in research, um, also we all know the best quality of research comes from those randomized controlled trials across the country, not to just focus on one or two hospitals, they are valuable, but it’s, you know, the best quality will be across the whole population or as wide as possible, the population...
That’s a really good question. I think lung cancer nurses, as we are the key workers for our patients. It’s important and paramount, really, that we provide care which is evidence-based and where the evidence is from, from the research. So that’s why it’s important for us to get involved in research, um, also we all know the best quality of research comes from those randomized controlled trials across the country, not to just focus on one or two hospitals, they are valuable, but it’s, you know, the best quality will be across the whole population or as wide as possible, the population. So we need a large kind of, you know, army of research-active or research-aware team members across all healthcare professionals, so to be able to do that, we need lung cancer nurses, importantly, to be aware about research and to be able to talk to other patients about research and to be able to support research and to be able to help recruit and also disseminate the research outcomes, so that we can put the research outcomes into our day-to-day practice.
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