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EDUCATED PATIENT Lung Cancer Webinar: Eastern Region

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CURE staff

CURE hosted its second webinar that will focus on all the latest topics and trends for patients with lung cancer.

Lung cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States and is the deadliest. However, the lung cancer landscape is evolving to meet the demands of the disease and find new ways to detect, prevent and treat lung cancer.

On Monday, June 8th, CURE® gathered top experts in the field of lung cancer for an informative lung cancer webinar focused on topics that were highly relevant to patients, caregivers and advocates, including current trends with lung cancer diagnoses, COVID-19 symptom overlap and minimizing risk, biomarker testing and more.

PRESENTING FACULTY include:

Stephen Liu, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Director, Thoracic Oncology

Director, Developmental Therapeutics

Georgetown University

Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

Charu Aggarwal, MD

Leslye M. Heisler Assistant Professor for Lung Cancer Excellence

Abramson Cancer Center

University of Pennsylvania

Upal Basu Roy, PhD, MPH

Vice President of Research

LUNGevity Foundation

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