# International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer

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## TL;DR

The only global society devoted to lung and thoracic cancers, whose World Conference on Lung Cancer and TNM staging project define the field.

## Summary

Founded in 1974, IASLC has more than 8,000 members in over 100 countries and publishes the Journal of Thoracic Oncology and JTO Clinical and Research Reports. Its Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee runs the international database behind the TNM classification for lung cancer, mesothelioma and thymic tumours (ninth edition 2024), and its World Conference on Lung Cancer is the annual venue for thoracic oncology trials, from EGFR and ALK inhibitors to neoadjuvant immunotherapy and ADCs. IASLC issues pathology and biomarker atlases (PD-L1, ALK, MET), the Lung Cancer Screening guidelines and the Grading System for lung adenocarcinoma, and its Tobacco Control Committee and Early Detection Committee drive global screening advocacy.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: IASLC
- City: Denver, CO, US
- Type: consortium
- Website: https://www.iaslc.org

## Sources

- IASLC: https://www.iaslc.org
- World Conference on Lung Cancer: https://wclc.iaslc.org

## Connected records

- collections: [LUNGevity Foundation (and GO2 for Lung Cancer)](https://onco.cc/collections/lungevity/)
- cancers: [Mesothelioma](https://onco.cc/cancers/mesothelioma/), [Non-small-cell lung cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/), [Resectable stage I to III non-small-cell lung cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/resectable-nsclc/), [Small-cell lung cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/sclc/)
- fronts: [Early Detection & Screening](https://onco.cc/fronts/early-detection/), [Targeted Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/targeted-therapy/)
- technologies: [AI in radiology](https://onco.cc/technologies/radiology-ai-screening/), [Comprehensive genomic profiling](https://onco.cc/technologies/cgp/), [CT (computed tomography)](https://onco.cc/technologies/ct/), [Immune checkpoint inhibitors](https://onco.cc/technologies/checkpoint-inhibitor/), [Small-molecule kinase inhibitors](https://onco.cc/technologies/kinase-inhibitors/)
- institutions: [American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)](https://onco.cc/institutions/asco/), [European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)](https://onco.cc/institutions/esmo/)
- terms: [Oncogene addiction](https://onco.cc/terms/oncogene-addiction/), [TNM staging](https://onco.cc/terms/tnm-staging/)
- people: [Benjamin Solomon](https://onco.cc/people/solomon-benjamin/), [Caicun Zhou](https://onco.cc/people/zhou-caicun/), [Fiona Blackhall](https://onco.cc/people/fiona-blackhall/), [Karen Kelly](https://onco.cc/people/karen-kelly/), [Pasi A. Jänne](https://onco.cc/people/pasi-janne/), [Yi-Long Wu](https://onco.cc/people/wu-yi-long/)

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