IARC highlights rare cancers to mark Rare Disease Day 2023

In a new video to mark Rare Disease Day, scientists from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) present one aspect of the lungNENomics project, which aims to improve the diagnosis and clinical management of lung neuroendocrine tumours, a type of rare cancer. Most lung neuroendocrine tumours tend to grow slowly, but a significant number are more aggressive, reducing the 10-year overall survival rate to 50%. This research is one of the projects led by the IARC Rare Cancers Genomics Team, which was established to focus on the study of rare cancers. The lungNENomics project was recently awarded funding by the Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation.