LUNG CANCER MISSION 2024 - 2034

- With these challenges in mind, the Polish Lung Cancer Group, in cooperation with more than 10 scientific societies and patient organizations working in the areas of family medicine, diagnostics, surgery and oncology, today established the Lung Cancer MISSION 2024 - 2034, for improving the outcomes of lung cancer care in Poland over the next 10 years. - said Prof. Dariusz M. Kowalski, secretary general of the Polish Lung Cancer Group.

The aim of the cooperation undertaken is to counteract the negative - health, social and economic - consequences of the increasing incidence and excess mortality of Polish women and men from lung cancer, the most common cause of death in Poland.

- I hope that the cooperation of so many circles, will bear tangible fruit, which we will inform you about. We are also counting on the support of the media for information about the change in the approach to lung cancer, where patients, even with advanced disease, can live many years thanks to modern treatment," stressed Prof. Rodryg Ramlau, president of the Polish Lung Cancer Group.

- Mission Lung Cancer is a good course of action - diagnostic and therapeutic management in oncology, because it is the interplay of various specialties, and here in the area of thoracic malignancies, especially lung cancer, the interaction of specialists, lung diseases, thoracic surgery and clinical oncology, radiation therapy is essential. It is increasingly rare that we have to deal with patients in whom we use only one method of treatment, we associate surgery or radiotherapy with systemic treatment and use complementary and supportive treatment. - stressed Prof. Maciej Krzakowski, national consultant for clinical oncology, president of the Polish Society of Clinical Oncology.

As early as this November, a directional document "Lung Cancer Mission 2024 - 2034" will be released along with a roadmap of the current state of care, which will be a guidepost for both systemic and organiz...