Growing numbers of people are being diagnosed with cancer,but the chances of survival are getting better,the latest Cancer Institute NSW report shows.
The Morrison government will spend $5 million to establish a national dust diseases taskforce in a bid to address the worsening occupational lung disease crisis.
The needle-phobic could be in for some relief with new research working towards drugs being delivered by a puff rather than a jab in the future.
Medical professionals have joined a campaign to strip the stigma from lung cancer,saying patients are dying needlessly.
Researchers at Prince Charles Hospital are hoping to establish a screening program for lung cancer as effective as the breast screening program
A new strategic action plan for lung conditions will redress the discrimination that stops patients getting treatment.
More than $100,000 in fines have been levied at people smoking in public places across Queensland in the last financial year.
Nearly 200,000 Australians will die of lung cancer within 20 years,the vast majority smokers. If governments don't refocus,the death rate will be much worse.
“I want to live":why Carolyn Riordan is battling the stigma of lung cancer.
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