New Year, New You!
Goodbye 2018, hello 2019! With the new year comes new opportunity to recommit to your health and well-being. If you’re part of the 41% of Americans looking to set a New Year resolution, we can help! Here are four [...]
Honor and Salute the Veterans In Your Life
By Rick Sherlock, Lung Cancer Alliance Board Member and retired Major General of the United States Army On this Veteran’s Day, we honor and salute the dedicated service of the brave men and women that protect our freedoms. In [...]
LCA Urges CMS to Remove Barriers to Screening
In a number of communications to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Lung Cancer Alliance urged the national CMS office to 1) instruct all local Medicare contractors that lung cancer screening coverage is available in all settings [...]
Trial Results Show Screening Significantly Reduces Lung Cancer Mortality Rates
Washington, DC [September 25, 2018] – Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) applauds the results of the Dutch-Belgium Lung Cancer Screening trial (NELSON) announced today in Toronto, Canada at the IASLC 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer. The NELSON study was [...]
Meet Anita! Our Screening Expert
By Anita McGlothlin, Associate Director of Science and Regulatory Policy, Lung Cancer Alliance Greetings! I am Anita McGlothlin, the Associate Director of Science and Regulatory Policy at Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA). I can’t wait to meet you in person [...]
News Flash: Our Lungs Matter And Screening Does Save Lives
By Laurie Fenton Ambrose, President and CEO, Lung Cancer Alliance Make no mistake about it—lung cancer can be detected at an early stage, when it is more likely to be treatable and cured. Yes, you heard it right—treatable and [...]
My Public Health Path to Lung Cancer
By Amy Copeland, MPH, Director of Medical Outreach at Lung Cancer Alliance Public Health Week (April 2-9) got us thinking….What exactly is public health and how does it relate to lung cancer? We sat down with Amy Copeland, Lung [...]
VA-PALS – Improving Lung Cancer Screening For Our Veterans
By: Angela Criswell, Senior Manager of Medical Outreach Lung cancer among veterans is a serious issue because they face higher incidence rates of the disease and lower survival rates compared with civilian populations. The disproportionate impact of lung cancer [...]
LCA Participates in Inaugural Meeting of National Lung Cancer Roundtable
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 – Today, Laurie Fenton Ambrose, President and CEO of Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA), along with a coalition of leading healthcare professionals, patients, government and non-governmental organizations, is joining the American Cancer Society for the inaugural [...]
LCA Partners with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the New York University School of Medicine on CASTL Initiative
Monday, November 6, 2017 – Today, Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) joins the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and the NYU School of Medicine (NYU) to announce the launch of the Cessation And Screening To Save Lives (CASTL) Initiative. [...]