Table 3.

GP's role in diagnosis and therapy

	France		Norway
Diagnostic process	N	%	N	%
Diagnosis after clinical suspicion	994	59	282	73
Chance Discovery	270	16	54	14
Diagnosis after screening in asymptomatic patient	313	19	32	9
Implication of GP in the diagnostic procedure	1310	78	319	83
Personal GP took diagnostic initiative	1223	73	257	67
Another GP took diagnostic initiative	87	5	62	16
Patient feared having cancer	455	27	33	9
Therapy
Organisation of health care decided treatment team	259	15	309	80
Treatment team reputation contributed to choice	820	49	54	14
Patient or family contributed to choice	489	29	47	12
GP implicated in choice of cancer treatment	223	13	15	4
GP implicated in dealing with side effects of treatment	910	54	180	47
GP implicated in administering chemotherapy	68	4	34	9

GP = General Practitioner