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2019: The Year Of Hope
Bonnie J. Addario, lung cancer survivor and founder of the Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, reveals the one word that is present in every cancer journey and outlines the possibilities for the lung cancer community in the near year.
Lung Cancer Awareness Month: Let’s Clear the Smoke
We’re making great progress. More new therapies have been approved for lung cancer in the last three years than in the previous fifty years. Even so, lung cancer still accounts for almost 30 percent of all cancers combined.
Transformational Medicine: It starts and ends with patients
It’s time for pharma and academia to include the most important voice not in the room – the voice of patients who’ve got the most at stake and not a moment to lose.
Demand A Scan: Luck Is Not An Option
Right now, the only patients who get a CT scan for early detection are people considered high risk, including current and former smokers. That’s despite proof that 80% of new lung cancer patients have either never smoked or quit decades prior.
No Doubt About It — We’re In A Trust Crisis
While America struggles with a trust deficit, I am reminded of how putting my trust in a doctor who suggested an unconventional lung cancer surgery made me a cancer survivor today.
Lung Cancer’s Stigma Stymies Progress
The reality is that a stigma never tells the full story. And in the case of lung cancer, it doesn’t even come close.
