[Needs in coverage and care for lung cancer in Mexico].

Objective: To analyze the coverage of lung cancer in Mexico and offer recommendations in this regard.

Materials And Methods: By means of the conformation of a multidisciplinary group, we analyze the burden of the disease relative to the lung cancer and the access to the medical treatment offered by the different public health subsystems in Mexico.

Results: Important inequalities in lung cancer care are documented among the different public health subsystems.

Cancer mortality in the Mexican Social Security Institute, 1989-2013.

Unlabelled: Objetive: To analyze cancer mortality in affiliates of the Mexican Social Security Institute (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social - IMSS) and time trends in the risk of death due to cancer from 1989 to 2013.

Materials And Methods: A descriptive analysis of cancer mortality trends in beneficiaries of the IMSS was performed. Age- and sex-adjusted mortality rates were obtained using direct standardization with the WHO population.

Modifying cancer patients' attitudes towards medical care received in the oncology service.

Background: Attitude changing involves a holistic change on individual biopsychosocial structure. That attitude is understood by behaviors, thoughts, feelings and higher mental processes involved with behavior. This attitude will be considered in two ways: favorable or unfavorable, through a part of the environment.