The world’s largest meeting on lung cancer prevention and treatment is coming to Denver.
The four-day conference, hosted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, will take place Sunday through Wednesday at the Colorado Convention Center.
More than 7,000 researchers from more than 100 countries are expected to attend. The topics include lung cancer prevention and screening, growing cancer incidences among women and non-smokers and new treatments that are dramatically altering survival rates.
“Thousands of experts representing dozens of specialties share a single goal: conquering the lung and thoracic cancers that account for nearly a third of all cancer deaths worldwide — more than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined,” said Dr. Fred Hirsch, the organization’s chief executive officer and a professor in medicine and pathology at the University of Colorado.
For the first time, patients are being included free of charge.
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