#LCSM Chat topic 7/16 at 8pm ET: Happy Second Birthday to Us!

By Andrea Borondy-Kitts; Laronica Conway; David T Cooke, MD; Janet Freeman-Daily; Deana Hendrickson; Matt Katz, MD; and H Jack West, MD. The #LCSM Chat on Thursday, July 16, at 8 pm Eastern Time (5 pm Pacific) will be an early celebration of our second birthday.  The #LCSM hashtag was first used by @subatomicdoc (Matt Katz, MD) to represent Lung Cancer Social Media on June 22, 2013, and the first-ever #LCSM Chat occurred on July 25, 2013.  Seventy-two patients, advocates, caregivers, family members, educators, healthcare providers, and researchers participated. The first #LCSM Chat… Read More

NIH invite to #LCSM: join NIH tweetchat on Precision Medicine Initiative 6/30 1pm ET using #PMINetwork hashtag

Tomorrow, June 30, at 1:00 pm ET, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will host an hour-long Precision Medicine Initiative chat on Twitter using the hashtag #PMINetwork.  Participants will include NIH Institutes like the National Cancer Institute (see the NCI’s social media events page), advocacy groups like LUNGevity (@Lungevity), and anyone interested in learning more about the Precision Medicine Initiative. During the chat, the NCI invites members of the #LCSM community to ask questions about lung-specific NCI precision medicine initiatives such as Lung-MAP, ALCHEMIST, and NCI-MATCH.  When you tweet your Precision Medicine questions,… Read More

#LCSM Chat Topic 6/18: “What I wish I’d known before my #LungCancer treatment.”

Our topic for the next #LCSM Tweet Chat on Thursday, June 18, at 5 PM Pacific (8 PM Eastern) is “What I wish I’d known before my #LungCancer treatment.” Our moderator will be Dr. David Tom Cooke (@DavidCookeMD). Although medicine has made some great advances in the treatment of lung cancer, sometimes pre-treatment expectations do not always match a patient’s post treatment reality. Understanding what patients and their families would have liked to have known about their therapies may help clinicians and care providers better plan to improve outcomes. This conversation within… Read More