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Christiana Care launches ambitious health partnership to fight lung cancer in Delaware
Christiana Care is launching an ambitious Delaware health initiative to reduce the prevalence, morbidity and mortality of lung cancer, which exacts an enormous toll on families.
“Lung cancer is a devastating disease, and it takes more lives than the next three leading cancers combined,” said Scott D. Siegel, Ph.D., MHCDS, licensed psychologist and director of Population Health Psychology, Value Institute, who is one of the leaders of this effort.
“As a result, we are forming partnerships with researchers, clinicians, community stakeholders and public policy makers to tackle lung cancer through strategic approaches that give special emphasis to tobacco control, cancer screening and gene editing.”
“Every two and a half minutes in the
United States, someone is diagnosed
with lung cancer, but this disease has not
been on enough people’s radar.” Albert A. Rizzo, M.D., FACP, FACCP
The kick-off event for this comprehensive initiative was a well- attended Inaugural Lung Cancer Symposium, held April 16 at the John H. Ammon Medical Education Center. Presenters shared the latest treatments for lung cancer, as well as the epidemiology of the disease, data on prevention and research on screening, along with the history of tobacco sales and information on
the importance of smoking cessation, and the targeted sale of cigarettes to minority communities.
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