Lung Cancer Community Can Learn from Breast Cancer Progress

Thoracic surgeon Dr. Jacques Fontaine at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa believes there is a well-marked path to improving the stubbornly high mortality rate for lung cancer. The breast cancer community already has blazed the trail. "Some of the things that really changed the face of breast cancer 20 years ago, are now taking hold with lung cancer," Fontaine told Asbestos.com. "Hopefully, we're going to start seeing more progress." November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, a time to focus on what needs to be done, what should be done better, and what breast cancer has taught everyone. While progress in combating lung cancer has come slowly in recent decades, the fight against breast cancer has been much more pronounced and celebrated. Breast cancer death rates have dropped almost 4...

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