Mission and Vision

The Rescue Lung Society (RLS) is an independent 501(c)(3) organization established to eliminate barriers to CTLS adoption through public/provider education, advocacy, research, and development of novel tools which streamline high quality program implementation and management.  The Rescue Lung Society (RLS) was founded by a multidisciplinary group of clinicians and research scientists with a decade-long track record of CTLS innovation including originating the current accepted standard CTLS reporting system (LungRADS), pioneering community benefit CTLS, prototyping the first commercially available dedicated CTLS program management system (Primordial Program Management System), establishing the first state-sponsored CTLS learning collaborative (Massachusetts), publishing the only commercially available CTLS reading simulator and training tool (Lung Academy), identifying novel lung cancer biomarkers, and lobbying CMS successfully to establish CTLS reimbursement. RLRL Society board members have authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles  on topics central to performing high-quality lung screening and continue to provide guidance on CTLS program development and function on a daily basis at no charge to institutions throughout the United States and the world.

The Rescue Lung Society mission is to save lives at risk for lung cancer through high-quality CT lung screening today and pioneering early detection innovations tomorrow. For decades lung cancer has been the number one cancer killer in the United States, leading to the deaths of more men and women than breast, colon, and prostate cancers combined. The good news is with CT lung screening we finally have a proven method to find lung cancer early when it is curable.  In fact, if all patients at high-risk for lung cancer underwent CT lung screening we could cut the death rate of lung cancer nearly in half – saving  tens of thousands of American lives every year.  Unfortunately, less than 5% of Americans at high-risk are currently enrolled in CT lung screening programs.  Much work remains to be done. Please join us in our journey to save lives.