Announcement of launch of UK Lung Cancer Coalition
Dominic Wake
Cancer Services Collaborative meeting 31 October 2005 National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham
UKLCC partners
Health professionals / DoH • Mr Stephen Falk, Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre Gilmour Frew, Cancer Services Collaborative ‘Improvement Partnership’ Dr Joe Maguire, Liverpool Lung Cancer Centre Dr Mick Peake, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester Professor Stephen Spiro, University College Hospital Dr Richard Steyn, Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust Dr Roger Vaughan, Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust Healthcare companies • • • • • • • AstraZeneca Bristol-Myers Squibb Lilly UK Pierre Fabre Roche Sanofi-aventis Unisoft Medical System Patient charities • • • • • • • • • • • British Lung Foundation Cancer Black Care Cancer Research UK CancerBACUP General Practice in Airways Group Macmillan Cancer Relief Tenovus - the cancer charity Marie Curie National Lung Cancer Forum for Nurses Meso UK Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
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UKLCC objectives
• Raise the public’s awareness of lung cancer – and encourage symptom recognition and earlier presentation • Increase early diagnosis • Improve lung cancer services in the UK • Improve patient information and empowerment • Increase research funding for lung cancer
Working together to double lung cancer survival