Lung Cancer Europe shared a post on LinkedIn:
“As we move towards 2026, stigma and fatalism remain some of the hardest issues lung cancer still faces globally.
A newly published clinical paper on nihilism and stigma in lung cancer care puts into words some of the biggest barriers still holding progress back.
Even with better treatments and stronger evidence, lung cancer is too often met with lower expectations, delayed action, or quiet assumptions about outcome.
These attitudes influence prevention, diagnosis, how options are explained, and whether people feel taken seriously from the start.
Treatment has moved on.
But stigma and fatalism have not.”
Title: Confronting nihilism and stigma in lung cancer: The nurse practitioner’s role in restoring hope and trust
Authors: Lisa Carter-Bawa, Timothy J. Williamson, Nancy Alvey, Abbie Begnaud, Dannell Boatman, Deborah P. Brown, Deena Cook, Dusty Donaldson, Jill Feldman, Heidi A. Hamann, Ella Kazerooni, Lauren Kearney, Eugene Manley, Drew Moghanaki, Jamie S. Ostroff, James Pantelas, Elyse R. Park, Maureen Rigney, Lauren Rosenthal, Elizabeth Scharnetzki, Joan Shiller, Robert A. Smith, Anne L. Stangl, Erica T. Warner, Douglas E. Wood, Jamie L. Studts
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