Putting a spotlight on lung cancer screening: SOLACE awareness raising activities

As part of the SOLACE project, partners are working to raise awareness of lung cancer screening among the general public.  

In November, dedicated as lung cancer awareness month, we shared lung cancer screening developments across the countries working within the SOLACE project. This included the following updates:  

• Lung cancer screening programmes are at different stages across European countries. Some have recently launched national programmes (Germany), while others have been running pilot programmes for a while (Czech Republic) and some are hoping to launch one soon (France).  

• Partners are aiming to play an active role in the creation of lung cancer screening guidelines that will provide a standardised way of delivering lung cancer screening programmes across Europe.  

• Partners are also looking forward to collaborating with other European organisations, exchanging best practices when it comes to research, as well as improving the way they reach out to targeted people.  

You can read all the articles from this month in our news section: https://europeanlung.org/solace/newsroom/  

SOLACE aims to help people understand more about lung cancer screening and what is happening with screening programmes in their country. As well as Lung Cancer Awareness Month, other campaigns take place throughout the year to help the public learn more about what screening is and how it can help.  

Lung cancer causes more deaths than colon, breast and prostate cancers combined. At the same time, its early diagnosis can reduce death rates by at least 20%. SOLACE will help countries deliver cost-effective screening programme for lung cancer and identify the best techniques for reaching out to those groups that are at particularly high risk.  

We invite you to stay up-to-date with the project’s latest news and developments, by signing up to the  Stakeholder Forum and by following us on social media.https://europeanlung.org/solace/contact/ 

Access our resources to help raise awareness of lung cancer screening and SOLACE: https://europeanlung.org/solace/project-resources/