Timeliness of cancer care in a regional Victorian health service: A comparison of high-volume (Lung) and low-volume (oesophagogastric) tumour streams.

In the low-volume OG cancer stream, patients had longer wait times from referral to an MDM, where treatment decisions occur, but shorter time to commencement of first treatment. Conversely in the high-volume lung cancer group, there was delayed initiation of first treatment following presentation at MDM. There is need to explore ways to fast-track MDM presentation and commencement of therapy among people diagnosed with low-volume and high-volume cancers, respectively.