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November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month!
Here’s how you can help
Every year in November, people around the world work together to recognize and raise awareness of the challenges that come from a diagnosis of lung cancer. Awareness is the first step to prevention. Funding research is the first step towards finding treatments that will prolong and save lives. Learn the facts about lung cancer and find out about screening and prevention.
LCRF provides many ways for you to show your support, including social media graphics. Visit our website to get them for yourself.
Scientific Symposium – Recording Available
LCRF launched Lung Cancer Awareness Month with its annual Scientific Symposium, moderated by LCRF Scientific Advisory Board Chair, Dr. Katerina Politi and featuring a State of Lung Cancer Research address by Dr. Antoinette Wozniak, followed by a roundtable discussion on Biomarkers and Biology.
Panelists for the roundtable included: David J. Kwiatkowski, MD, PhD, Senior Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Trudy G. Oliver, BSc (Hons), PhD, Principal Investigator, Associate Professor, Huntsman Cancer Institute Endowed Chair in Cancer Research; Christian Rolfo, MD, PhD, MBA, Professor and Assoc. Director for Clinical Research, Center for Thoracic Oncology, The Tisch Cancer Institute; Kurt Schalper, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology, Director, Translational Immuno-oncology Laboratory, Yale School of Medicine; and Alison Taylor, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.
