The American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable strategic plan: Lung cancer in women
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Lung cancer in women is a modern epidemic and represents a global health crisis. Cigarette smoking remains the most important risk factor for lung cancer in all patients and, among women globally, rates of smoking continue to increase. Although some data exist supporting sex-based differences across the continuum of lung cancer, there is currently a dearth of research exploring the differences in risk, biology, and treatment outcomes in women. Consequently, the American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable recognizes the urgent need to promote awareness and future research that will close the knowledge gaps regarding lung cancer in women. To this end, the American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable Task Group on Lung Cancer in Women convened a summit undertaking the following to: (1) summarize existing evidence and identify knowledge gaps surrounding the epidemiology, risk factors, biologic differences, and outcomes of lung cancer in women; (2) develop and prioritize research topics and questions that address research gaps and advance knowledge to improve quality of care of lung cancer in women; and (3) propose strategies for future research. PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in women, and, despite comparatively lower exposures to occupational and environmental carcinogens compared with men, disproportionately higher lung cancer rates in women who ever smoked and women who never smoked call for increased awareness and research that will close the knowledge gaps regarding lung cancer in women.
Source: Cancer
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.35083
Authors: Leah M. Backhus, Ching‐Fei Chang, Lori C. Sakoda, Shonta R. Chambers, Louise M. Henderson, Claudia I. Henschke, Gina J. Hollenbeck, Francine L. Jacobson, Linda W. Martin, Elridge D. Proctor, Joan H. Schiller, Jill M. Siegfried, Juan P. Wisnivesky, Andrea S. Wolf, Ahmedin Jemal, Karen Kelly, Kim L. Sandler, Patricia N. Watkins, Robert A. Smith, M. Patricia Rivera
Institutions: Stanford Medicine, Stanford University, University of Southern California, Kaiser Permanente, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Patient Advocate Foundation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Phoenix VA Health Care System, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University, University of Virginia, Go2 for Lung Cancer, Lung Cancer Research Foundation, University of Minnesota, American Cancer Society, University of California Davis Medical Center, University of California, Davis, Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, University of Rochester Medicine
Language: English
Subfield: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $4,740
OpenAlex ID: W4402678437