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WCLC 2025 | Identifying supportive care needs for patients with lung cancer
Carolyn Presley, MD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, emphasizes the importance of addressing unmet supportive care needs in patients with thoracic malignancies. Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) often present with significant functional decline, anxiety, depression, and unmet symptoms such as pain and cough. Almost half of patients with NSCLC will also have some form of functional disability at diagnosis. This interview took place at 2025 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) in Barcelona, Spain.
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Particularly for patients who have thoracic malignancies, we know that at diagnosis there are a lot of unmet supportive care needs such as nutrition. A lot of our patients actually have had weight loss even before their diagnosis. Maybe that’s even what brought them to presentation. A lot of them have symptoms such as cough or pain that need to be addressed. Also, there’s a lot of anxiety and depression that can either be present before they’re diagnosed or even after diagnosis...
Particularly for patients who have thoracic malignancies, we know that at diagnosis there are a lot of unmet supportive care needs such as nutrition. A lot of our patients actually have had weight loss even before their diagnosis. Maybe that’s even what brought them to presentation. A lot of them have symptoms such as cough or pain that need to be addressed. Also, there’s a lot of anxiety and depression that can either be present before they’re diagnosed or even after diagnosis. And so there’s also a lot of functional decline as well. So we know that at diagnosis about 40% of patients with non-small cell lung cancer have some sort of functional disability. And so we really are purposeful about designing supportive care interventions that help our patients both mentally and physically together so that we can help them live well with lung cancer.
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