2013
03 June 2013 ASCO – Dr Rohit Lal
There continues to be a steady stream of thought provoking presentations in lung cancer at ASCO this year. Abstract 8017 quantifies just how much conscious and sub-conscious discrimination exists against lung cancer patients in the eyes of physicians and the public largely due to smoking which now appears to be less acceptable than obesity. Of course the most unfair aspect of stigmatising lung cancer patients applies to the 20% of lung cancers that occur in never smokers.