 Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, and Education — Italian Chapter (ALCASE Italia)
ALCASE Italia has been founded to fight against the devastating effects of the global lung cancer epidemic. We are committed to stimulate clinical research and medical education among doctors, nurses and other health professionals, to increase public awareness about the disease, to help suffering people and their loved ones, and to advocate for their needs and rights.
Click here to go to www.alcase.it
Italian translation -
Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, and Education — ALCASE Italia
ALCASE Italia ONLUS e' stata fondata per combattere il devastante impatto sociale del cancro del polmone. Essa si adopera per aiutare la ricerca scientifica, per migliorare la preparazione e la professionalita' di medici ed infermieri, per diffondere la conoscenza della malattia nella popolazione generale, per aiutare le persone sofferenti e le loro famiglie e per promuoverne la causa. L' Associazione e' costituita da due diverse componenti, sinergiche verso gli stessi obiettivi.
Click here to go to www.alcase.it
 La Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer
The Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (Spanish Association Against Cancer) is a non-profit, nation-wide organisation founded in 1953. Its main fields of activity are Cancer Prevention, Early Detection, Psychosocial support to patients and families, Domicilliary Palliative Care, Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Research.
Click here to go to www.todocancer.org
 Australian Lung Foundation
The Australian Lung Foundation aims to assist the relief of people suffering from lung disease, and promote lung health in Australia by raising funds in support of medical research into lung disease, distributing research findings and knowledge and thereby educating patients and the broader public on the treatment and prevention of lung disease.
Click here to go to www.lungnet.org.au
 Brazilian Cancer Association (Associacao Brasileira do Cancer)
The Brazilian Cancer Association is a non-profit organization, with the mission to inform, educate and mobilize the civil society for cancer prevention, early detection and the reduction of the suffering of those touched by cancer.
Currently our main activities focus on information through the ABCâncer magazine, a bi-monthly publication which reaches approximately 240 thousand people around the country every year, with cancer information written in lay language. Also on that area, there is our website; the website contains information about all types of cancer, treatment centres, patients' rights, etc.
On other fronts, we are developing prevention projects, but have not implemented them as yet, and our biggest project this year is the Relay For Life, which aims to form a cancer community in Brazil, which will enable us to gain critical mass to fight for patient rights.
Click here to go to www.abcancer.org.br
 British Lung Foundation
The British Lung Foundation is the only charity in the UK that funds research into the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of all lung diseases. By unlocking the secrets of the lung, we're taking huge steps towards finding cures for the 40-plus lung conditions in existence.
Click here to go to www.lunguk.org
 Canadian Lung Association
The Canadian Lung Association is a not-for-profit organisation established in 1900. Our vision is: all people free of lung disease. Our mission is to lead national and international lung health initiatives in preventing lung disease, helping people manage lung disease and promoting lung health. We are a unique partnership of 10 provincial associations from coast to coast. The Canadian Lung Association acts to strengthen the work of the provincial associations through support of research, advocacy for improved respiratory health, communications and coordination of services.
The Canadian Lung Association also works with its four health professional societies: the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS), the Canadian Nurses Respiratory Society (CNRS), the Canadian Physiotherapy Cardio-Respiratory Society (CPCRS) and the Respiratory Therapy Society (RTS).
Click here to go to www.lung.ca
Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada
The CACC is a national, grassroots advocacy organization with a mandate to make omprehensive, evidence-based cancer care a national priority. The CACC is focused on increasing accountability and transparency in all aspects of cancer control, through periodic publications and public forums.
Click here to go to www.canceradvocacycoalition.com
 Lung Cancer Alliance
Lung Cancer Alliance is the only not-for-profit organization in the US dedicated solely to helping those living with lung cancer improve the quality of their lives through advocacy, support and education.
Click here to go to www.lungcanceralliance.org
Lung Cancer Canada
Lung Cancer Canda is a charitable organisation established in 2002 with the aim of providing awareness, support and education in Canada with respect to lung cancer. Lung Cancer Canada is made up of lung cancer patients and their family members, health care professionals, and private citizens.
Click here to go to www.lungcancercanada.ca
CANCERcare
CANCERcare is a non-profit organization in the US whose mission is to provide free professional help to people with all cancers through counselling, education, information and referral and direct financial assistance.
Click here to go to www.cancercare.org
Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation
The Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation (CRPF) is a national, non-profit health foundation with a single mission: the prevention and early detection of cancer through scientific research and education. CRPF focuses its energies and resources on those cancers — including lung, breast, prostate, colorectal, cervical, skin and testicular — that can be prevented through lifestyle changes or detection and treatment in their early stages.
Click here to go to www.preventcancer.org
 German Cancer Society (Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft e.V)
The German Cancer Society e.V. is the largest scientific-oncological compartment society with approximately 5,000 members in Germany. It's aims are prevention, improved survival through early detection and improvement of quality of life. Activities include cancer information, health campaigns and support of Oncology investigations which serve doctors, scientists, patients, their relatives and the general public.
Click here to go to www.deutsche-krebsgesellschaft.de
 Irish Cancer Society
The Irish Cancer Society is the national charity dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem and to improving the lives of those living with cancer.
In 2004 the Irish Cancer Society was part of a pro health alliance, which supported the introduction of the work place smoking ban and has seen 99% compliance in the workplace. The ban led to a reduction in smoking, however, due to the failing of the government to increase the price of cigarettes in Budget 2003, 2004 and 2005 the price of cigarettes fell in real terms. This resulted in a resurgence in smoking. Following extensive lobbying from the Irish Cancer Society in 2006 the government increased the price of 20 cigarettes by 0.50euros in the most recent budget.
The Irish Cancer Society also delivers the national smoking quitline in partnership with the HSE. We have taken over 50,000 calls since it was set up in November 2003.
 La Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer
Founded in 1918, the French Cancer League is involved with all aspects of the disease, providing financial and strategic support for cancer research and working with patients to develop and undertake educational initiatives around health education and cancer prevention.
Click here to go to www.ligue-cancer.net
French translation -
La Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer
Depuis sa création en 1918, la Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer agit simultanément sur tous les fronts de la maladie: soutien financier à la recherche et définition des programmes prioritaires; actions solidaires conçues pour et avec les malades; éducation à la santé, prévention, dépistage.
Click here to go to www.ligue-cancer.net
 Stodet (Sweden Lung Cancer Support)
Our aim is to support patients with lung cancer and their loved ones. We also want to give lung cancer a face that is not crying, and finally it is important to make sure that the best hospital care is given.
Click here to go to www.stodet.se
 Lung Cancer Information Center (Longkanker Informatiecentrum)
Our organization aims to make available high quality information on lung cancer to patients and their loved ones. We aim to provide further support to patients by facilitating support groups, and improving communication between patients and health care providers.
Click here to go to www.longkanker.info
 Lung Cancer Patient’s Foundation (Fundacion Pacientes de Cancer de Pulmon)
The main objective of the Lung Cancer Patient's Foundation is the prevention of lung cancer, research and better attendance of people affected by this disease. The objective until the end of 2007 is to establish the Foundation allowing it to grow little by little, to continue recruiting new members and to make its objectives more ambitious year by year. The plan for the first three years is based on learning to work and organise ourselves as a Foundation, the diffusion of the Foundation and the development of information plans about lung cancer. The core activities will be a Lung Cancer Awareness Campaign set up to interact with other NGO's in Argentina, create anti smoking campaigns, provide a wide variety of activities towards prevention of lung cancer and work closely with health authorities (especially providing patients, tools for access to medication and treatments).
website currently under construction
National Lung Cancer Partnership
National Lung Cancer Partnership is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
dedicated to decreasing deaths due to lung cancer, and helping patients live
longer and better through research, awareness and advocacy.
Founded in 2001 as Women Against Lung Cancer, the organization changed its
name to National Lung Cancer Partnership in 2006 to better reflect the
partnership we have forged with physicians, researchers, lung cancer
survivors and their families, advocacy organizations and the media to help
achieve our mission. We are ultimately working to advance lung cancer
treatments for all patients, but we are currently focusing our efforts on
women because women do not perceive lung cancer's threat to their health;
women make up a disproportionate number of never-smokers with lung cancer,
and are otherwise differently affected by the disease; and women are
powerful agents of change.
Click here to go to www.NationalLungCancerPartnership.org
The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation is wholly dedicated to defeating the disease. We are committed to "Fighting Lung Cancer" through our work in Research, Prevention and Patient Care (Support, Information & Advocacy).
Lung Cancer in the UK has a very low public profile. Through our
"early diagnosis saves lives" campaign, we can highlight the need for
people most at risk to be aware of the signs & symptoms of lung cancer
and get checked out early.
Click here to go to www.roycastle.org
Tribunale per i Diritti del Malato - Cittadinanzattiva
The Tribunal for the Rights of the Patients is an initiative that began in 1980 to protect the health and welfare rights of citizens and to help achieve a more humane and functional health service. The Tribunal is comprised of ordinary citizens, workers from the sector and professionals who provide their services on a voluntary basis. It involves local units throughout Italy an dover 10,000 citizens working in hospitals and territorial services.
Click here to go to www.cittadinanzattiva.it
 West Japan Thoracic Oncology Group (WJTOG)
L-net is a service provided by WJTOG to offer accurate and fair information of lung cancer for patients and their families in order to promote better understanding of lung cancer. Medical information provided in the website is prepared by WJTOG. WJTOG is a group of cancer specialty doctors and their supporters who are establishing the standard treatment for lung cancer in Japan.
Click here to go to www.lnet.info
Japanese translation -
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