Medical Xpress November 19, 2024
More people with lung cancer are living longer, but it remains America’s deadliest cancer, a new state-by-state report shows.
“There is more work to do, but I am incredibly optimistic about the future of lung cancer care,” said Harold Wimmer, president and CEO of the American Lung Association (ALA), which documents improved survival rates and opportunities to do more in its 2024 “State of Lung Cancer” report.
In the past five years, the lung cancer survival rate has improved 26%, according to the report. It credits deployment of biomarker testing—which looks for changes in a tumor’s DNA—as a key factor. Biomarker testing can help tailor treatments to individual patients, it points out.
But, the report notes, access to the testing,...
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