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Article: The 'Invisible' Disease: Lung Cancer Finds Its Voice; Lung Cancer Patients' Needs to Be Heard for the First Time at World's Largest Gathering of Lung Cancer Experts.
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- August 11, 2003
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Organisers of the 10th World Congress on Lung Cancer have taken the unprecedented step of inviting representatives from lung cancer patient organisations around the globe to speak out to an expected 3,000 international lung cancer experts attending the congress this week about the many issues facing lung cancer patients today.
The Global Lung Cancer Coalition (GLCC) will highlight some of the issues lung cancer patients face, such as insufficient information about their disease, the isolation and 'stigma' experienced by many lung cancer patients -- even those who have never smoked tobacco -- and the need for ...