Lung cancer is the fourth leading cause of death in Australia and is the world’s most lethal cancer. In healthy lungs, normal lung tissue cells reproduce and develop into healthy lung tissue. With lung cancer, abnormal cells reproduce rapidly and never grow into normal lung tissue. Lumps of cancer cells form tumours which disrupt the functioning of the lung.
Lung cancer research helps us understand how the disease is caused, how it develops and how it can be best treated.
What we are doing now and where our research is taking us
Scientists within the Occupational and Respiratory Health Group are looking at how to improve and develop ways of finding lung cancer when it is in this early stage.
Lung screening is one of the biggest advances in the fight against lung cancer in decades.Prof Fraser Brims, Head of the Occupational and Respiratory Health Group
Help us continue our vital research by making a donation towards lung cancer research.