ACS NLCRT Task Groups
Through the efforts of its Task Groups (highlighted below), the American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable advances initiatives that focus on provider engagement and outreach, tobacco treatment in the context of lung cancer screening, health equity, shared decision-making about screening, implementation of screening programs, access to high quality screening, policy action, survivorship, triage for appropriate diagnostic evaluation and therapy, and an end to the stigma and nihilism associated with a diagnosis of lung cancer, which pervades every aspect of this disease.
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Health Equity Task Group

Lung Cancer Early Detection Implementation Strategies Task Group
To identify and develop best practices for scalable models that also overcome barriers to the delivery of high-quality lung cancer early detection.

Policy Action Task Group
To decrease lung cancer deaths and increase survivorship by identifying policy pathways (Congress, federal and state agencies, state legislative, regulatory bodies, employer groups etc.) and address solutions and strategies with stakeholder groups in advocating for, improving, and ensuring access to high quality and affordable lung cancer screening and treatment including the full continuum of care; screening implementation, early detection, education, diagnosis, treatment, management, palliative and hospice care.

Provider Engagement and Outreach Task Group
To promote the awareness and engagement of health care professionals in the adoption of evidence-based initiatives that can increase lung cancer screening and tobacco treatment.

Shared Decision-Making Task Group
To identify, develop, and promote accurate, tailored, model-informed and shared decision-making content related to lung cancer screening, identify challenges and barriers to the delivery of information related to lung cancer screening, develop strategies to overcome these challenges and barriers, and to promote best practices.

State-Based Initiatives Task Group
To address the similar but local challenges of implementation of strategies to reduce lung cancer risk and lung cancer deaths at the local level. This Task Group will work closely with other Task Groups to brings tools and best practices to state-based initiatives to advance lung cancer control systematically at the state and local level.

Stigma and Nihilism Task Group
To address the broad challenges related to the influence that stigma and nihilism have persons living with and at risk for the development of lung cancer related to quality of life, cancer care, and prognosis

Survivorship Task Group
To define, and spur innovation to address, the supportive care needs of patients living with lung cancer across the spectrum of their cancer experience and promote patient-centered care.

Tobacco Treatment Across the Care Continuum Task Group
Guided by best practices, research findings and engagement with key stakeholders, the charge is to develop blueprints for integrating and monitoring success of implementing evidence-based tobacco treatment in the workflow of lung cancer screening.

Triage for Appropriate Treatment Task Group
To increase access to, mitigate variability in, and improve outcomes associated with diagnosis, staging, biomarker testing, treatment, and surveillance among patients with lung cancer.