Posted on February 3, 2016 by Gray Connections
Thursday, February 4, 2016, is World Cancer Day 2016 — a day to consider how WE CAN fight one of the world’s top killers. We need everyone to have access to good healthcare. We need better understanding of cancer risk factors and ways to reduce them. We need better screening and diagnostic tools. We need better treatments, and at affordable cost. We need to eliminate barriers to communication, information, and data sharing. We need better funding and support for patients. Worldwide, people will be tweeting, blogging and posting on social media about World Cancer… Read More
Posted on January 25, 2016 by #LCSM Chat
At the recent State of the Union Address, President Obama struck a bipartisan chord by announcing a new “Cancer Moonshot” program with Vice President Joe Biden serving as “mission control” and leading a charge of renewed efforts to remove perceived barriers to scientific collaboration and achieve unprecedented progress to understand, prevent, and more effectively treat cancers of all types. Vice President Biden has a very personal stake, as his son Beau died of a glioblastoma (a primary brain cancer) in May, 2015. He has been meeting with several leading national cancer experts… Read More
Posted on January 11, 2016 by Gray Connections
Our topic for the next #LCSM Tweet Chat on Thursday, January 14th at 5 PM Pacific (8 PM Eastern) is “What Clinical Questions Can We Study to Improve Lung Cancer Treatment Outcomes?” In this chat, moderator Dr. David Tom Cooke (@DavidCookeMD) will facilitate brainstorming for clinical trial ideas. The chat is a continuation of #LCSM Chat’s ongoing Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded project, entitled “Empowering Patients and Their Families to Improve Outcomes That Are Most Important to Them after Surgery and Other Therapies for Lung Cancer.” Patient-centered outcomes… Read More
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