• Abeer Alkhathlan, Razan Alfaiz, Ghaida Almusallam, Esraa Arabi, Mohammad Alkaiyat, and AbdulRahman Jazieh.
• From the College of Medicine (Alkhathlan, Alfaiz, Almusallam, Arabi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the Department of Oncology (Alkaiyat, Jazieh), Ministry of the National Guard - Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Saudi Med J. 2022 Mar 1; 43 (3): 313-316.

ObjectivesTo evaluate the impact of coordination of care of lung cancer in a tertiary care center.MethodsA retrospective study was carried out on all patients diagnosed with lung cancer between 2016-2017 at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Data were collected from medical records, which included demographic data, the interval between cancer suspicion and definitive therapy, multidisciplinary tumor board (MTB) data, and palliative care.ResultsA total of 60 (41 males and 19 females) cases of lung cancer were analyzed. The majority of patients had adenocarcinoma (63.3%) and stage IV (70%) lung cancer. A total of 32 (76.2%) of stage IV patients were referred to palliative care. Only 40 (66.7%) of the patients were presented in the MTB, of whom new findings were found in 15 (37.5%) patients including pathology findings in 3 (7.5%), radiology findings in 7 (17.5%), and staging data in 5 (12.5%). Multidisciplinary tumor board discussion had impacted the management in 14 (35%) of patients presented.ConclusionDiscussion of lung cancer cases in MTB had a positive influence on the coordination of patients' care.Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal.

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