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ILC2 Round 4 application deadline extended
Deadline extended! Don’t waste this opportunity to apply for funding. ILC2 from Lung Ambition Alliance is a platform to help fund local projects across the world. The aim is to support patient and caregiver non-profit organisations to improve the quality of care and the patient experience in #lungcancer. Please note: the ILC2 Round 4 application portal […]
How Air Pollution May Cause Lung Cancer – research data shared at ESMO
From ILCN News, 11 October 2022 DURING ESMO CONGRESS 2022, PROF. CHARLES SWANTON SHARED DATA THAT SHOW CELLS WITH EGFR AND KRAS GENE MUTATIONS CAN TURN CANCEROUS WHEN EXPOSED TO POLLUTION FROM THE BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS. By: Erin Jungmeyer In: MEETING NEWS, RISK ASSESSMENT AND REDUCTION Charles Swanton, PhD, FRCP Editor’s Note: For more research on the […]
Major step towards lung cancer screening for Australia
Chair of the GLCC, Prof Matthew Peters, has welcomed a ”major step forward” towards a national lung cancer screening programme in Australia. The Australian Government has received advice regarding a national lung cancer screening program from the independent Medical Services Advisory Committee. Cancer Australia, the Government’s lead agency for cancer control, initiated an application to […]
Lung Ambition Alliance ILC2 Round 4 now open
The Challenge There remains considerable variation in the management of lung cancer around the world. Access for patients to important diagnostics, treatments and support programs varies markedly. Our Solution ILC2: Initiatives in Lung Cancer Care, a Global Funding Opportunity to Transform Patient Care and Improve the Patient Experience The ILC2 program supports patient and caregiver organizations registered […]
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 […]
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 […]
Latest issue of Unity arrives
The Spring/Summer issue of the GLCC’s own newsletter, UNITY, is now available. The new issue leads with a report on our updated e-Atlas. You can also read about our Third Patient Experience Survey. The Spotlight falls on Samo Pitamic, director of Na-Vdih in Slovenia, while there is also an account of Mary Ann Bradley receiving […]
Meeting in Vienna: value of co-operation and sharing ideas
Korina Pateli-Bell of FairLife Cancer Care (Greece) and Peter Czanyo of Fundacion Pacientes Cancer de Pulmon (Argentina) at the 2022 annual meeting The experience of people living with lung cancer, and those affected by it, is at the very core of the work of the GLCC. Members and supporting partners who gathered for […]
GLCC Meeting underway in Vienna
Peter Czanyo of Fundacion Pacientes Cancer de Pulmon and Korina Pateli-Bell of FairLife Lung Care Delegates from many of the GLCC’s worldwide network of member organisations are in Vienna, meeting face to face for the first time in since the 2019 meeting in Barcelona. The effects of the pandemic have restricted us to virtual […]
See you in Vienna?
For the first time since the meeting in Barcelona, Spain, in 2019, members of the GLCC will be able to meet and share insights face to face. After holding the past two annual members’ meetings via video links, it will be a refreshing change for many of the GLCC membership to once again gather together, […]
