Tag: Global Lung Cancer Coalition
Latest edition of our Unity newsletter now available
The new issue highlights the findings of the GLCC’s fourth annual patient experience survey. This year, 712 patients from 14 countries took part, resulting in findings we hope our members, policy makers and campaigners will start to use in their work. Other articles cover: an overview of our Coping With Lung Cancer project FairLife Lung […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
New GLCC E-Atlas launched
NEWS ALERT: We have updated our lung cancer e-Atlas with the latest incidence and mortality data for every country in the world. The revised e Atlas also features a new tool to help compare lung cancer data between countries. If you are looking to compare countries’ lung cancer outcomes or want to find out whether […]
JTO article highlights benefits of quitting smoking at or around diagnosis
The following is an introduction to an Editor’s Choice article in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology (JTO). Quitting Smoking At or Around Diagnosis Improves the Overall Survival of Lung Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Caini, et al. Smoking is known to be the leading cause of lung cancer worldwide. Thus, there are […]
NHS England campaign to promote Targeted Lung Health Checks
NHS England press release 19 April 2022 Cancer Elective care Long Term Plan Hundreds of people have been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier through NHS mobile trucks, as part of the biggest programme to improve early lung cancer diagnosis in health service history. Thanks to NHS teams who are making it even easier for people […]
Latest issue of Unity newsletter now available
The latest edition of Unity, the newsletter of the Global Lung Cancer Coalition, is now available. It has been circulated to all GLCC member organisations, and you can also download it here as a pdf document. Screening Resource Centre Highlighted The COVID-19 pandemic has made this a difficult and challenging year for many of […]