Christine M. Lovly: Let’s end the stigma and change the narrative about lung cancer

Christine M. Lovly shared a post by IASLC on X/Twitter:

“ A sobering statistic. Lung Cancer is the number 1 cause of cancer related deaths in the USA. ~50% of women with lung cancer are non-smokers. Let’s end the stigma and change the narrative about lung cancer to help all patients.”

Quoting IASLC’s post:

“Anyone with lungs can get lung cancer. Worldwide, ~20% of men with lung cancer are non-smokers while over 50% of women with lung cancer are non-smokers.”

Source: Christine M. Lovly/Twitter and IASLC/Twitter.

Christine M. Lovly is an associate professor of medicine with tenure at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center. Dr. Lovly is also an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and a member of the Editorial Board for Cancer Discovery and JCO Precision Oncology. She is a member of the Board of the American Association for Cancer Research. She serves on the Scientific Leadership Boards for the GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer Research (where she also serves as SLB director), the LUNGevity Foundation, and the Lung Cancer Research Foundation. She is co-director of the AACR Molecular Biology in Clinical Oncology course and serves on the AACR Science Policy and Government Affairs committee. In 2021, she was awarded the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group Young Investigator Award. Dr. Lovly is the co-Editor-in Chief for the website www.mycancergenome.org.