Implementation of optimized supportive care and hospital needs along the management of patients with advanced lung cancer.

Background: Supportive care in cancer (SCC) have been recommended to be integrated in the management of patients with lung cancer all along the course of the disease. We took advantage of a pilot program of early implementation of optimized SCC, to report the feasibility such program in patients with advanced lung cancer, and correlate patient characteristics and outcomes with the actual use of optimized SCC.

Methods: This study is a retrospective analysis of all consecutive patients with lung cancer treated at our center between 2012 and 2016.