What is the UK Lung Cancer Coalition?
The United Kingdom Lung Cancer Coalition (UKLCC) is a powerful partnership of the leading lung cancer charities, clinicians, healthcare professionals and healthcare companies with a commitment to lung cancer issues. The UKLCC is the nation’s largest multi-interest group in lung cancer, working to bring lung cancer out of the shadow. The UKLCC is primarily a campaigning organisation and does not provide support for people affected by lung cancer. Information and support can be found by contacting the following member organisations whose contact details are available on this website: British Lung Foundation; Cancer Black Care; Cancer Research UK; Macmillan Cancer Support Marie Curie Cancer Care; Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation; Tenovus.
Our challenge
Lung cancer is the country’s biggest cancer killer. In the UK, someone dies from lung cancer every 15 minutes. Despite some recent improvements in service provision, there are still wide variations in standards across the country, including diagnosis, treatment and care for lung cancer patients.
The UKLCC believes that more can be done to reduce the terrible death toll caused by lung cancer. Our vision is to meet an ambitious “survival challenge”:
To double one year lung cancer survival by 2010 and five year survival by 2015*
* based on survival rate figures from 1996-99.
Our plan of action
The UKLCC has developed a 12 point plan – calls for action which we believe if prioritised and acted upon would make a real difference for lung cancer patients.
Bringing standards of care across the NHS up to those in the best centres would, we believe, save many thousands of lives. We are keen to work with the NHS and Government, patients and carers, industry and voluntary sector to make sure this happens.
Download the Lung Cancer Plan
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