News & Updates
Aujourd’hui marque le lancement de la première édition des bourses Lung Ambition, un nouveau programme canadien de bourses de recherche sur le cancer du poumon conçu pour aider à améliorer la vie des personnes atteintes d’un cancer du poumon. Initiative conjointe de Cancer pulmonaire Canada, de la Lung Ambition Alliance et d’AstraZeneca Canada, le programme octroiera annuellement 100 000 $ CA en bourses et est ouvert à tous les cliniciens et chercheurs canadiens dans l’ensemble du spectre multidisciplinaire du domaine du cancer du poumon. Il s’agit du plus important programme de bourses de recherche du genre au cours des 20 années d’histoire de Cancer pulmonaire Canada.
Les candidatures pour les bourses Lung Ambition seront acceptées du 6 décembre 2022 au 28 février 2023. Cliquez ici pour lire le communiqué de presse complet.
Today marks the launch of the first annual Lung Ambition Awards, a new Canadian-based lung cancer research awards program designed to help improve the lives of people living with lung cancer. A joint initiative between Lung Cancer Canada, The Lung Ambition Alliance and AstraZeneca Canada, the awards program will have annual grant funding of $100,000 CAD and is open to all Canadian clinicians and researchers from across the multi-disciplinary spectrum of those working in the lung cancer space. It is the largest research awards program of its kind in Lung Cancer Canada’s 20-year history.
Applications are now OPEN and will continue to be accepted until February 28, 2023.
Click here to read the full Press Release
Dr. Snow and Tim Monds sits down with Global News Morning to discuss new treatment developments in lung cancer, screening program progress in Canada, and Give a Breath 5K. Watch the full interview here.
In a new article published in The Globe and Mail, President Dr. Stephanie Snow discusses just how impactful lung cancer is across Canada, and how the pandemic has impacted patients' timely acces to care and treatments.
We have reached the halfway point of Lung Cancer Awareness Month and we still need your support to help make lung cancer screening a priority in Quebec.
(Don’t live in Quebec? That’s okay, you can still participate by clicking here to sign our petitions!)
As part of a lung cancer screening pilot project due to end in 2023, right now in Quebec, lung cancer screening is only available at eight hospitals across six regions: Montréal, Québec, Laval, de la Côte-Nord, de l’Estrie, de l’Outaouais and de la Montérégie.
We need your help today to change this.
Click here to tell your elected representative that lung cancer screening matters!
July 12, 2022 at 2:00 pm EST over Zoom
BC Cancer has launched a provincewide lung cancer screening program, providing access to eligible high-risk people at 36 sites throughout the province.
The Ontario Green Party’s platform indicates it will publicly fund take-home cancer medications
LCC President Dr. Stephanie Snow co-writes a paper on the disparities in public cancer drug funding alongside Ceilidh MacPhail. Click to read the full paper on this important issue.
Lung Cancer Canada is excited to announce a new partnership with Give A Breath 5k! We thank the Monds family for establishing this annual fundraiser and for their continued dedication in raising funds/awareness for lung cancer. Please read the official press release here.
Cancer pulmonaire Canada est ravi d'annoncer un nouveau partenariat avec Give A Breath 5k! Nous remercions la famille Monds d'avoir mis sur pied cette collecte de fonds annuelle et pour son dévouement continu à la collecte de fonds et à la sensibilisation au cancer du poumon. Veuillez lire le communiqué de presse officiel ici.