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💙 Supporting, empowering & advocating for those with ALK+ lung cancer in the UK 🧬 Advocacy | Awareness | Trusted resources 🫶 NICE-recognised, improving lives, driving change, and amplifying our community voices linktr.ee/alkpositivelungcanceruk
👤 Joined on 20 November 2024
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@alkpositiveuk.bsky.socialEven a few weeks of exercise before #lungcancer surgery could improve fitness and support recovery. A new review also highlights benefits for physical function, fatigue and breathlessness in advanced lung cancer. doi.org/10.1007/s120... #LCSM
Show PostCould hotter summers increase #lungcancer deaths? New research warns that changes to how we cool our homes could increase exposure to radon, a radioactive gas that causes lung cancer, including in people who have never smoked. The risk is invisible. doi.org/10.1038/s444... #LCSM
Show PostNo agreed treatment once small cell #lungcancer comes back. From RESONANCE, to be presented at #ESMO26: 623 people with ext-stage SCLC in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. Authors point to a likely reason: too few effective options. If this Western Europe. What about the rest? #LCSM
Show PostAround 60% of people with non-squamous NSCLC have an actionable mutation, says research cited in a new review. We only find out who through testing. Everyone diagnosed with #lungcancer should have access to the right tests, and to the treatment they point to. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #LCAM
Show PostMany people with ALK-positive #lungcancer are diagnosed during busy, active years of life: working, raising children, caring for family. 72% were working at diagnosis. Of those, 51% stopped working because of their lung cancer. 2026 Demographics Report: tr.ee/jAki-M0aYK #LCSM
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