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The National Lung Cancer Screening Program is supporting early diagnosis of lung cancer, with more than 400 people identified with a high or very high-risk abnormality, and more than 60 primary lung cancers detected in NSW in the program’s first year of operation.

Lung cancer continues to place a heavy burden on the NSW community. It accounts for more than 8 per cent of all new cancer diagnoses and remains the leading cause of cancer‑related death in the state.

Victoria Taber, a non-smoker, was just 29 years old when she was diagnosed with lung cancer – an unexpected discovery following a routine travel test.

More than 100 healthcare and community experts came together at the Cancer Institute NSW’s recent Primary Care Cancer Control Symposium to discuss the rollout of Australia’s new lung cancer screening program.

There are many factors that can increase the risk of lung cancer, but data show a significant amount of Australians only link the disease with tobacco smoking.

Lung cancer is killing more people in NSW than any other cancer, but are stereotypes also hurting people living with the disease?

Many people in NSW are delaying seeking treatment for symptoms consistent with lung cancer, a new study from the Cancer Institute NSW reveals.

What’s worse – hearing that you have lung cancer or having to say it to your children?

A new study by the Cancer Institute NSW has revealed the immediate impact of cigarette plain packaging. The study analysed calls to the Quitline support service to find a 78 per cent increase associated with the phasing in of plain packaging from 1 October 2012.

On Sunday 1 December, the Federal Government’s 12.5 per cent tax increase on cigarettes will come into effect, a move welcomed by the Cancer Institute NSW, the State’s cancer control agency.