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Christine Lovly: Rate of New Lung Cancer Cases by State

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Nov 27, 2024, 15:26

Christine Lovly: Rate of New Lung Cancer Cases by State

Christine Lovly, Associate professor of medicine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, shared a post on X by National Cancer Institute adding:

“Where does your state measure up? I love my home state of TN, but we are in the ‘red zone’ for highest of new lung cancer cases per year If anyone needs help, our multi-disciplinary lung cancer team.

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is outstanding!”

Quoting National Cancer Institute’s post below:

“Did you know? The states with the highest rates of new lung cancer cases are: AR, KY, ME, MO, MS, NC, OH, OK, TN, and WV. What’s the rate of new Lung Cancer cases in your state?

Visit State Cancer Profiles to find out.”

Christine Lovly: Rate of New Lung Cancer Cases by State

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 My Cancer Genome