The IASLC is an international membership organization with over 7,000 members. The mission of the IASLC is to: (1) Promote the study of the etiology, epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and all other aspects of lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies; (2) Disseminate information about lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies to the members of the Association, to the medical community at large, and to the public; and (3) Use all available means to eliminate lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies as a health threat for the individual patient and throughout the world.