Month: September 2022
UK National Screening Committee recommends targeted screening for lung cancer
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has today (Thursday 29 September) given a positive recommendation for the introduction of the country’s first targeted national cancer screening programme. At its first meeting following the approval of its expanded remit, the committee recommended that the 4 UK nations should move towards implementing a targeted national lung […]
ILC2: Initiatives in Lung Cancer Care Round 4 now open
26 September 2022 – Adapted from the Lung Ambition Alliance website. The GLCC is one of the founding partners of the LAA, whose aim is to transform patient care for people diagnosed with lung cancer. The Challenge There remains considerable variation in the management of lung cancer around the world. Access for patients to important diagnostics, […]
Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outcomes, Patient Vaccination Status, and Cancer-Related Delays During the Omicron Wave: A Brief Report from the TERAVOLT Analysis
From JTO Clinical and Research Reports BRIEF REPORT| VOLUME 3, ISSUE 8, 100335, AUGUST 01, 2022 Authors: Christine M. Bestvina, MD Jennifer G. Whisenant, PhD Valter Torri, MD Marina Chiara Garassino, MD Javier Baena, MD On behalf of theTERAVOLT study group Show all authors Open Access Published: May 19, 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtocrr.2022.100335 Introduction The Thoracic Centers International coronavirus […]
COVID-19 A Roadblock to Effective Cancer Care in 2022
From the IASLC Lung Cancer News A JOINT SESSION AT WCLC EXPLORED THE IMPACT THE PANDEMIC HAS HAD ON THE PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS, AND MANAGEMENT OF THORACIC MALIGNANCIES. By Leah Lawrence, on August 30 2022 – read it online here. As she introduced a WCLC 2022 educational session presented by IASLC and the Global Lung Cancer […]
Lung Cancer: A World View – project report published
Lung Cancer: A World View The GLCC commissioned a project to understand campaigning priorities in lung cancer at a national level. Our colleagues at Evoke Incisive Health helped us to compile, collate and publish this report. The GLCC serves as the international voice of people affected by lung cancer. Therefore member organisations have a key […]
GLCC achievement award for Win Boerckel
Win Boerckel with the award presented by Maureen Rigney The GLCC honoured Winfield (Win) Boerckel’s retirement after many years of service to the coalition and the lung cancer community at our 2022 annual meeting in Vienna, Austria. After Win’s wife died from cancer in 1982 and he retired from the Long Island Railroad, he became […]
