ANNOUNCEMENTS
Donation Drive to Supply Oxygen Concentrators to Ministry of Health COVID-19 Treatment and Quarantine Centres
World Lung Day 2021
Conquering Lung Cancer Together
Donation of High Flow Nasal Cannula and Consumables
MTS Congress 2020 Awards
Booking of MTS Meeting Rooms
Sign On the Charter for Lung Health Petition
Action for Better Lung Health Around The World
MTS Travel Grants
UK Training Vacancies in Respiratory Medicine
Air pollution and hypersensitivity pneumonitis in urban cities
Statement on Unproven Stem Cell Interventions for Lung Diseases (July 2016)
The August issue of the Annals of the American Thoracic Society Journal
The statement that the MTS had endorsed is here
Visiting Professional Programme - Lane Fox Respiratory by the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation
MTS Travel Grant for Overseas Conferences
Resolution passed at APLCC 2014RESOLUTION
We, the participants of Asia Pacific Lung Cancer Conference, held on 6 – 8 November 2014 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Recognize that:
1) Tobacco is a key risk factor for lung cancer claiming about 1.6 million lives globally every year (GLOBOCAN 2012).
2) Complete implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is the most effective way forward for prevention of lung cancer.
3) Tobacco industry interference is the major threat for effective implementation of the WHO FCTC.
4) Trade and investment agreements are increasingly being used by the tobacco industry to undermine tobacco control strategies including challenging the sovereign right of governments to protect public health.
Recommend that:
1) The APLCC supports full implementation on the WHO FCTC especially in all countries that are party to this treaty.
2) Eliminate tobacco industry interference at all levels of tobacco control strategy implementation.
3) Tobacco products should be explicitly excluded from future internation, regional and bilateral trade and investment agreements.