Invited Commentary

Commentary on “Small Cell Lung Cancer: Time to Diagnosis and Treatment”

Authors: Daniela Hoehn, MD, PhD

Abstract

Americans may not receive the care that meets their clinical needs, and the disparity between increasing understanding of disease development and progression and action and initiation of treatment is extremely wide. These disconcerting facts have come to the forefront of healthcare delivery in the last several decades, and they inform the contribution of Kantrow and colleagues in this issue of the Southern Medical Journal.1

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