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Officially, the Cuneo Lung Cancer Study Group (CuLCaSG) was founded in Cuneo, an alpine town of northwest Italy (in January 20, 1994). An informal lung cancer group, however, is active since 1982 at the "A.Carle" Hospital of Chest Diseases, thanks to the work of two thoracic oncologists, the doctors G. Buccheri and D. Ferrigno...

Mission    The CuLCaSG group is a nonprofit organization made up by doctors, nurses, and other health care personnel.   It is auxiliary to the local bodies of the Italian Health Service (the Cuneo Health System) and has three main objectives...

Founders  The group was launched in January 20, 1994.  An informal lung cancer group, however, has been active at the "A. Carle" Hospital for Chest Diseases since 1982...

The Scientific Secretary  Gianfranco Buccheri, MD, is presently the Scientific Secretary of the group.  He is  mainly responsible for the CuLCaSG scientific production.  Dr. Buccheri is a Thoracic Oncology Consultant at the S. Croce and Carle Hospital (Cuneo)...

Scientific Achievements   We investigates primary malignancy of the lung, posing questions on different clinical aspects of the diagnosis and treatment.  The main areas of interest are tumor markers, pre-surgical staging of non-small cell lung cancer, chemotherapy of the inoperable disease, psychological issues surrounding the illness, and prognostic evaluation...

Our Publications   A complete list of the CuLCaSG group's publications.

Recent Clinical Investigations  The full text our most recent clinical investigations.

First Cuneo Lung Cancer Conference Report  An international meeting (The 1st Cuneo Lung Cancer Conference) has been held in 1994 in Sommariva Perno, Alba, in the province of Cuneo... Highlights from the conference.

Second Cuneo Lung Cancer Conference Report  A monothematic international meeting (The 2nd Cuneo Lung Cancer Conference) has been held in 1998, in Terme di Vinadio, Cuneo... Highlights from the conference.

Third Cuneo Lung Cancer Conference  A new Lung Cancer  meeting (The 3rd Cuneo Lung Cancer Conference) has been held in Cuneo, May 2002... Program and information are available on line.

Lung Cancer lessons (I)  CuLCaSG lessons for patients and their relatives (only in Italian)

Lung Cancer lessons (II)  CuLCaSG lessons for doctors and health professionals (only in Italian)

The Lung Cancer Manual Italian Version The Italian translation of the Lung Cancer Manual, produced by the Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, and Education (ALCASE), for their American patients and their relatives.  The original English version is available for downloding from the ALCASE web site

Second Cuneo Lung Cancer Conference - Proceedings

The Ninth World Conference on Lung Cancer - Report   Every three years, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) organizes the World Conference on Lung Cancer.   The 2000 Conference has been held in Tokyo, Japan.  A report from the conference, written by our Scientific Secretary.

The Leuven Symposium - Report  Report of Working Group 2: Prognostic factors in non-small cell lung cancer

The new Italian Textbook of Respiratory Diseaseas (The Lung Cancer Chapter) The Chapter has been written in late 2001 by the CuLCaSG Scientific Secretary (only in Italian)

External links   A small selection of cancer sites on the WEB, with particular emphasis to lung cancer. 

The patient corner  What we can do -and what it is impossible to do- for patients seeking personal advice.

Membership

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