LONDON, July 8 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), Guardant Health, the Global Lung Cancer Coalition (GLCC) and AstraZeneca announced the Lung Ambition Alliance, a new partnership with a bold ambition to eliminate lung cancer as a cause of death. The first goal of the Alliance will be to double five-year survival for patients with lung cancer by 2025.
Every 18 seconds, a life is lost to lung cancer.1 In 2018 alone, approximately 1.8 million people died from the disease.1 Forty percent of patients are diagnosed when the cancer has already spread beyond the lung and their prognosis has worsened.2 Currently, only one in five lung cancer patients are alive five years after diagnosis.3