WCLC 2018: Lung cancer stigma is detrimental to patient care
Dr Jesme Fox (Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, UK) discusses research she presented showing that lung cancer stigma is detrimental to patients’ care.
Dr Jesme Fox (Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, UK) discusses research she presented showing that lung cancer stigma is detrimental to patients’ care.
WCLC co-Presidents Professor Andrea Bezjak and Dr Natasha Leighl (both of Toronto, Canada) discuss research from their centre on the iimportance of QOL outcome measures in clinical trials.
Talk of progress in cancer treatment can ring hollow if the new, life-lengthening therapies are not widely available, the president-elect of the European Society of Medical Oncology said… read more.
Patients with unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer taking durvalumab had significantly better overall survival than those on placebo after standard chemotherapy and radiation, according to the… read more.
The ALK- and ROS1-inhibitor brigatinib showed a better progression-free survival (PFS) compared to the ALK-inhibitor crizotinib in the first interim analysis of a head-to-head trial in patients with… read more.
Professor Gail Darling (WCLC co-President, Toronto, Canada) discusses the success of combined screening and smoking cessation pilot in Ontario.
Dr Jesme Fox (Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, UK) and Professor David Baldwin (Nottingham, UK) detail current UK pilots and a screening protocol that is currently going through the NHS England… read more.
A randomised, controlled screening trial for lung cancer involving almost 16,000 people in the Netherlands and Belgium found that CT screening produced a 26% reduction in lung cancer… read more.
The IASLC 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) was full of highlights, including 3 plenary abstracts being presented in the New England Journal of Medicine and involvement from… read more.
Professor John Lafrate (Harvard Medical School, Boston) and Professor Frank Detterbeck (Yale School of Medicine, New Haven) spoke in a session looking at some of the difficulties with diagnosis and… read more.
First-line treatment with the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab showed an overall survival benefit compared to platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer and… read more.
With permutations of potential front-line treatments for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) seemingly endless, one thing seems certain…
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