Stephen V Liu, Director of Thoracic Oncology, Chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology, and Associate Professor at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, shared a post on X:
“Updated American Cancer Society statistics now available CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
Lung cancer remains the second most common cancer in men and women but the leading cause of cancer related death. Survival continues to markedly improve overall – but still not where we want to be.
On the left are stage distribution at diagnosis and we see for lung cancer, patients most commonly present with distant disease.
Hoping for more shift with lung cancer screening and awareness. On the right, survival by stage shows how important that is. 
An important annual publication from American Cancer Society – important to celebrate the gains we have made and use that as motivation to push for much much more.”
Title: Cancer statistics, 2026
Authors: Rebecca L. Siegel, Tyler B. Kratzer, Nikita Sandeep Wagle, Hyuna Sung, Ahmedin Jemal
Read the Full Article on CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
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