ILCN Lung Cancer News
ILCN Lung Cancer News


  • WCLC Chairs Welcome Opportunity to Gather Face-to-Face

    WCLC Chairs Welcome Opportunity to Gather Face-to-Face

    Erin Jungmeyer
    Meeting News, WCLC News

    Challenges remain throughout the world, but the 2022 World Conference on Lung Cancer chairs say the extra effort required to find solutions is worth it.


  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology Impact Factor Surpasses 20

    Journal of Thoracic Oncology Impact Factor Surpasses 20

    Mary S. Todd
    Meeting News, WCLC News

    A journal’s impact factor reflects the yearly number of citations of its recently published articles. JTO’s impact factor has consistently grown for the past several years.


  • Step It Up For Research!

    Step It Up For Research!

    Erin Jungmeyer
    Meeting News, WCLC News

    Join IASLC’s first annual steps challenge and raise money for cancer research while staying active during WCLC 2022.


  • Foundation Announces 2022 Young Investigator Grant Recipients

    Foundation Announces 2022 Young Investigator Grant Recipients

    Erin Jungmeyer
    Meeting News, WCLC News

    The International Lung Cancer Foundation recently awarded $350,000 in grants to support lung cancer research and young investigators.


  • Workshops Offer Opportunities for Education, Networking Based on Shared Interests, Specialties

    Workshops Offer Opportunities for Education, Networking Based on Shared Interests, Specialties

    Erin Jungmeyer
    Meeting News, WCLC News

    WCLC 2022 will kick-off with several sessions designed to give specialty audiences more interaction with experts and thought leaders.


  • In Brief for June 22, 2022

    In Brief for June 22, 2022

    Erin Jungmeyer
    Meeting News, WCLC News

    See the latest IASLC meeting news, including an extended deadline for ACLC abstract submissions and COVID-19 guideline updates for those traveling to WCLC.


  • Acute Admissions Rates for Lung Cancer Patients Up During Pandemic, Not Linked to COVID-19

    Acute Admissions Rates for Lung Cancer Patients Up During Pandemic, Not Linked to COVID-19

    COVID, WCLC 2020 Archive, WCLC News

    Data from a single-center study in Scotland suggested that there were more patients with lung cancer admitted acutely with cancer, non-COVID-19-related illness during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Early and late lockdown were characterized by a reduction in self-presentation and longer resulting admission suggesting that patients were admitted with more complex pathology and consequently had longer admission,”…


  • Modeling Analyses Show That Expansions in Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines to Better Capture
            Underrepresented Populations Still Need Work

    Modeling Analyses Show That Expansions in Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines to Better Capture Underrepresented Populations Still Need Work

    Early Detection & Screening, WCLC 2020 Archive, WCLC News

    Two abstracts presented at the 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer shed light on how changes in current screening guidelines can influence lung cancer detection rates, specifically among underrepresented populations. As both studies illustrate, sometimes seemingly innocuous changes intended to improve detection rates can actually have negative consequences. Performance of the Draft 2020 USPSTF Lung…


  • Young Investigators Awarded Grants to Study COVID-19 and Lung Cancer

    Young Investigators Awarded Grants to Study COVID-19 and Lung Cancer

    Behind the Scenes, WCLC 2020 Archive, WCLC News

    Lung Ambition Alliance to award four new Junior Faculty Research Grants. Four early-career researchers have been selected to receive the Lung Ambition Alliance Junior Faculty Grants for the Study of COVID-19 and Lung Cancer. Research shows that patients with lung cancer have worse outcomes with COVID-19 and these grants are intended to fund groundbreaking research…


  • Lung Ambition Alliance: Stronger Together 

    Lung Ambition Alliance: Stronger Together 

    Behind the Scenes, WCLC 2020 Archive, WCLC News

    The IASLC has formed an alliance with the Global Lung Cancer Coalition (GLCC), Guardant Health, and AstraZeneca to accelerate the pace of lung cancer survival worldwide. This collaborative effort—known as the Lung Ambition Alliance—allows scientists, specialists, advocates, and patients to break the barriers limiting progress with a goal to double 5-year survival rates of lung…