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    SC31 - Together Against Lung Cancer - A Strategy for Success in the 21st Century (ID 355)

    • Event: WCLC 2016
    • Type: Science Session
    • Track: Regional Aspects/Health Policy/Public Health
    • Presentations: 1
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      SC31.04 - The Possibilities of Print & Social Media (ID 6734)

      15:30 - 15:45  |  Author(s): W. Wagner

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      Abstract:
      Lung Cancer – What media can/should do Oncology today is one of the main topics of health/medicine media coverage. With the advent of targeted and immunotherapies there’s been a shift towards presenting the rapid advances in this field. But contrary to topics like skin cancer, breast and colorectal cancer lung cancer has stayed in the shadows of reporting until now. It has all been anti tobacco campaigns often regarding smokers immoral, stigmatizing the patients. Late diagnosis and advanced disease plus bad prognosis have not made lung carcinoma a hot topic – and patient advocacy groups, often key players in getting topics into the broad public, are rare. What we have to do (besides non smoking campaigns): Produce valid information on the developing field of early diagnosis (in risk groups). Inform about advancing science and medical procedures to overcome this old nihilistic view of lung cancer as something too poor and bad to speak and write about.

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