The Community 365 Roundtable Meeting on Lung Cancer, which took place on 7 December 2020, brought together leading policy-makers, politicians, oncology experts, industry partners and advocates to mark the launch of the European Cancer Organisation Essential Requirements for Quality Cancer Care (ERQCC): Lung cancer, published in the journal Lung Cancer,[1] and to discuss this important area of cancer care.

Lung cancer is typically associated with late diagnosis and, consequently, poor outcomes and high mortality rates. There are challenges around the identification of patients at an early stage in their disease course and in getting patients, once they are diagnosed, into adequate treatment. Moreover, there is a stigma around the disease that stems from a lingering assumption that it is self-inflicted. A report from European Cancer Organisation