LuCE aims to raise awareness about inequities regarding the access to lung cancer treatment and care in Europe. Moreover, it advocates European policies that will lead to improvements in lung cancer prevention, early detection, treatment and care.
Lung Cancer Europe provides a European platform for national lung cancer patient advocacy groups and supports the establishment of those groups in countries where such groups do not yet exist. Our member organisations and associate members come from all over Europe.
Lung cancer is literally the biggest cancer killer worldwide – causing more deaths than breast and prostate cancer put together all over the world. Read more about our diagnosis, types and stages of lung cancer, treatments and clinical trials, but also how to cope with lung cancer.
Lung Cancer Europe was present at the European Cancer Forum held in Brussels. Brussels, 4 December 2018 MSD, in collaboration with Lung Cancer Europe and the European Cancer Patient Coalition, held the European Cancer Forum in Brussels to discuss around topics such as how to improve outcomes for people living with lung cancer, how to enable access to innovation within […]
Welcome to the 3rd edition of the LuCE Report. This report is an annual initiative led by lung cancer patient organisations, with the purpose of raising awareness about the biggest challenges that patients across Europe face. This 3rd report focusses on clinical trials and welcomes the progress made in lung cancer treatment in recent years. However, it also seeks to […]
“I am very happy to be an advocate these days because so many good things have started to happen in the last three, four, five years. The number of survivors are increasing all the time, so it is very good to be able to say that,” said Tommy Björk, LuCE board member. He considered the dramatic advancements in the understanding […]
Lung Cancer Europe will hold an event on 28th November at the EU Parliament to highlight the current challenges in clinical trials across Europe Within the occasion of this event, the 3rd edition of the LuCE report, which highlights some of the challenges still faced regarding research, will be presented. For the third consecutive year, LuCE will hold an event at […]
