Earlier diagnosis is rising—and transforming care. The latest BTOG x NLCA podcast explores how screening and stage shift are driving more surgery and better outcomes. Tune in 🎧 btog.org/btog-nlca-webinar-s…

BTOG welcomes the release of the report from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Tobacco Advisory Group called ‘Smoking, Health and Social Justice‘. Contributors included BTOG steering committee member, Professor Matthew Evison. This report focuses on the entrenched injustice caused by tobacco and the disadvantaged communities where smoking prevalence remains very high – poverty, homelessness, social housing, mental health. The report focuses on the responsibility of the NHS – where there are opportunistic interactions with these communities – to deliver comprehensive opt-out interventions in all areas – inpatients, outpatient, and in the emergency department. One area this is critically important is cancer clinics and there is very robust evidence that supporting a patient to be smokefree at the time of a diagnosis of lung cancer makes treatment more effective, reduces complications & improves survival. BTOG supports the recommendations of this report that make smoking services an integrated component of lung cancer services a standard of care and improve outcomes for patients diagnosed with lung cancer. rcp.ac.uk/policy-and-campaig…