Emergency and Urgent Cancer Care
Emergency cancer:
Is not always life threatening, but needs prompt assessment and a planned intervention within 24 hours
Clinicians concensus meeting 2010
Urgent cancer:
Is a condition that requires an assessment and planned intervention within seven days, or which is likely to lead to a cancer emergency within four weeks
Clinicians concensus meeting 2010
Presentations:
Shaping the Levels of Ambition: Lung & Urology Urgent and Emergency Care Workshop
10 March 2011
Shaping the direction of Emergency/Urgent Care for Cancer Patients; 2nd Emergency Consensus Meeting
17 May 2010
Shaping the Emergency Pathway for Cancer Patients; 1st Emergency Consensus Meeting
9 February 2010
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