Meet the Professor
Professor Solange Peters: cooperation is important for managing lung cancer
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Prof. Peters (Figure 1) is currently in charge of teaching and patient care in the area of thoracic malignancies at the Department of Oncology of Lausanne University. She is co-chair of Swiss Lung Cancer Research Group. Dr. Peters is the president of FOROME (Association Romande pour la formation continue en oncologie médicale), board member of SAMO (Swiss Academy for Multidisciplinary Oncology), and member of SAKK (Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research), and was recently elected as IASLC (International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) Board of Directors member. Solange Peters is the ESMO National Representative in Switzerland 2013-2014 and incoming board member since 2014. Dr. Peters was the associate editor of ‘Lung Cancer’ and became Deputy Editor of the ‘Journal of Thoracic Oncology’ (JTO), the official journal of IASLC, in 2013.
At 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting, research progresses in the field of lung cancer were of major interest. At Best of ASCO Annual Meeting in Shanghai, Solange Peters from the University of Lausanne introduced immunotherapy for lung cancer and the most promising novel targets in lung cancer, DXY interviewed her at the conference.
At 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting, research progresses in the field of lung cancer were of major interest. At Best of ASCO Annual Meeting in Shanghai, Solange Peters from the University of Lausanne introduced immunotherapy for lung cancer and the most promising novel targets in lung cancer, DXY interviewed her at the conference.
