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Vietnam's lung cancer patients to get free EGFR mutation testing

The central city’s Oncology Hospital, in co-operation with the British–Swedish biopharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, has launched its first-ever Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation testing programme

Changes in depression symptoms tied to lung cancer survival

 Worsening depression symptoms are associated with shorter survival for lung cancer patients, particularly those in the early stages of disease,

Vietnamese Gov’t, society must do more to tackle smoking

 VietNamNet Bridge – A report on the prevalence of tobacco smoking published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2015 indicated that 47.1 per cent of Vietnamese adults (aged 15 and above) were smokers.