Posted on February 29, 2016 by Gray Connections
#LCSM Chat believes there is value in building community across advanced and metastatic cancers. Advanced and metastatic cancer patients have concerns beyond those of earlier-stage patients. To recognize this, Symplur has registered a new hashtag: #AMSM (Advanced and Metastatic Social Media). #AMSM is a special concern for lung cancer, since more than half of lung cancer patients are metastatic at diagnosis. To help build the #AMSM community, the #LCSM Chat on 3/10 at 8 pm ET (5 PM PT) will be “Living Metastatic– common experiences across cancers.” We will use the #LCSM… Read More
Posted on February 22, 2016 by Gray Connections
The best lung cancer care considers the patient’s goals and values when choosing a treatment. However, identifying and communicating those goals is not always a straightforward process for either the care provider or the patient. This week’s #LCSM Chat explores the process of communicating patient goals and values. Care providers need to know how to elicit them. Patients (even those who want to leave treatment decisions entirely to their doctors) must be able to identify and express them, and, if need be, initiate a conversation about them. Choosing the right… Read More
Posted on February 8, 2016 by Gray Connections
Since June 2013, the #LCSM hashtag has been used by over 20,000 Twitter accounts, tweeted over 186,000 times, and generated over 541 million impressions. Participants include lung cancer patients, caregivers, family members, advocates, healthcare providers, hospitals, researchers, nonprofits, government agencies, journalists, pharma and the biotech industry. They use the hashtag to track new treatments, find patient resources, broadcast new research findings, develop advocacy activities, and connect with other lung cancer community members they might not find otherwise. #LCSM Co-Founder Janet Freeman-Daily will be presenting a research poster titled “Online Collaboration and Support… Read More
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