ILCN Lung Cancer News
ILCN Lung Cancer News


  • Lung Cancer Global Mortality Projections Skyrocket for Women

    Lung Cancer Global Mortality Projections Skyrocket for Women

    Global Initiatives

    By Joy Curzio Posted: April 1, 2019 Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women, with the 5-year survival rate at just 21%.1 An estimated 70,500 women in the United States alone died in 2018 due to lung cancer,1 and a recent study analyzing data from the World Health Organization (WHO) has projected…


  • Mentorship and Travel Awards for Nursing and Allied Health at WCLC 2018

    Mentorship and Travel Awards for Nursing and Allied Health at WCLC 2018

    Nursing & Allied Health

    By Erik MacLaren, PhD Posted: April 1, 2019 In September 2018, several attendees of the 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) in Toronto, Canada, received Travel and Mentorship Awards from the Nursing and Allied Health Professionals (AHP) Committee of the IASLC. Nurses and AHPs comprise approximately 5% of IASLC membership according to Pippa Labuc, the…


  • Nuances of PET Interpretation in Thoracic Oncology: More Than Just Lung Cancer

    Nuances of PET Interpretation in Thoracic Oncology: More Than Just Lung Cancer

    Evolving Standards of Care

    By Michael MacManus, MD, FRANZCR, and Tim Akhurst, MD, FRACP Posted: March 1, 2019  Dr. Michael MacManus 18F-FDG PET/CT scans portray living biology and are indispensable in thoracic oncologic evaluations, including presurgical staging of NSCLC, patient selection and target-volume definition in curativeintent radiation therapy (RT), and the evaluation of patients with suspected recurrence after definitive…


  • Lung Cancer Pathology Pioneer Dr. Adi Gazdar Dies at 81

    Lung Cancer Pathology Pioneer Dr. Adi Gazdar Dies at 81

    Names & News

    Posted: March 1, 2019 Adi Gazdar, MD, a true giant in the field of lung cancer research, passed away on December 29, 2018. Dr. Gazdar was the W. Ray Wallace Distinguished Chair in Molecular Pathology Research and professor of pathology at the Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research and pathology at UT Southwestern Medical Center.…


  • Uncommon Oncogenic Drivers in NSCLC

    Uncommon Oncogenic Drivers in NSCLC

    Systemic, Targeted, & Immune Therapies

    By Karen L. Reckamp, MD, MS Posted: March 1, 2019  Dr. Karen L. Reckamp Identification of genetic alterations in NSCLC has transformed diagnosis and treatment for patients with advanced disease. Identification of activating mutations in the EGFR gene in 2004 started the shift in our understanding of the complex biology of molecular subtypes of lung…


  • The Changing the Landscape of Tobacco Products: Potential Effects of ENDS and HTPs

    The Changing the Landscape of Tobacco Products: Potential Effects of ENDS and HTPs

    Tobacco Control & Smoking Cessation

    By Carolyn M. Dresler, MD, MPA Posted: March 1, 2019 It is common knowledge that the number one cause of preventable deaths in the world is from tobacco use—overwhelmingly from cigarettes.1 Most of the deaths from tobacco use, particularly from smoking, are from cardiovascular disease, followed by cancer, and then chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).2…


  • Diagnostic Oncology: Reports from the IASLC Pathology Committee

    Diagnostic Oncology: Reports from the IASLC Pathology Committee

    Diagnostic Oncology

    By Keith M. Kerr, BSc, MB, ChB, FRCPath, FRCPE Posted: March 1, 2019  There was a time, remembered by us older pathologists, when the image of pathology was that of a rather peripheral specialty, sometimes perceived to have limited clinical relevance, delivered by physicians who were never seen, rarely heard, and were usually banished to some…


  • Improving Clinical Trials Through Clinician, Patient Use of Social Media

    Improving Clinical Trials Through Clinician, Patient Use of Social Media

    Patient Advocacy & Survivorship

    By DR CamidgePosted: March 1, 2019 The National Cancer Institute featured a workshop in June 2018 titled “At the Crossroads of Social Media and Clinical Trials: A Workshop on the Future of Clinician, Patient, and Community Engagement.” The two-day conference brought together key stakeholders in this area including clinical trialists, internet researchers, patient navigators, advocates,…


  • IMpower133: Finally Moving the Needle in SCLC

    IMpower133: Finally Moving the Needle in SCLC

    Systemic, Targeted, & Immune Therapies

    By Stephen V. Liu, MD Posted: March 1, 2019 Dr. Stephen V. Liu The addition of atezolizumab to standard chemotherapy for extensive-stage SCLC achieved what, for decades, had been beyond reach: an improvement in survival in this disease. Since the 1980s, our standard of care for SCLC has been a platinum chemotherapy agent plus etoposide.…


  • Dr. Jamie E. Chaft Discusses Emerging Data on Induction Immunotherapy for NSCLC

    Dr. Jamie E. Chaft Discusses Emerging Data on Induction Immunotherapy for NSCLC

    Systemic, Targeted, & Immune Therapies

    Posted: March 1, 2019 In the following interview, Jamie E. Chaft, MD, a medical oncologist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses new data on induction immunotherapy for patients with resectable NSCLC as well as the recently published summary paper on the IASLC–U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) summit on neoadjuvant therapies.1 Q: What…