BARCELONA, Spain, Sept 10 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, at the IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer, the four founding partners of the Lung Ambition Alliance – the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), Guardant Health, the Global Lung Cancer Coalition (GLCC) and AstraZeneca – announced the launch of several new initiatives to support their goal of doubling 5-year survival by 2025.
Giorgio Scagliotti, President of the IASLC said, “We have made tremendous progress in just two months since announcing the creation of the Lung Ambition Alliance. The Alliance’s new initiatives, like the Initiatives in Lung Cancer Care (ILC²), illustrate our shared goal to engage with the global community and encourage ambitious in-country solutions that can potentially transform patient care and improve survival rates in lung cancer.”