Posted on September 16, 2019 by Gray Connections
Please join the #lcsm community and moderator Brendon Stiles (@BrendonStilesMD) for our next #LCSM Chat on Thursday, September 19th, 2019, at 8 pm Eastern Time (5 pm Pacific). Clinicians, researchers, patients and advocates from all over the world attended the 2019 World Conference on Lung Cancer (#WCLC19) from September 7-10 in Barcelona. This annual event, hosted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), is a showcase for all of the latest news and advances in lung cancer. The meeting is somewhat unique in that it is multidisciplinary in… Read More
Posted on August 12, 2019 by Gray Connections
In lieu of #LCSM Chat in August 2019, please join a collaborative #CancerSM chat with other cancer hashtag communities on Twitter (#gyncsm #bcsm #btsm #mmsm #ayacsm) about Finding Balance: ‘Cancer Life’ vs. ‘Real Life’.” Note this is a different day and time than usual for #LCSM Chat–this chat will be Wednesday, August 14th at 9pm ET. Learn more at http://gyncsm.blogspot.com/2019/08/joint-cancersm-chat-finding-balance.html .
Posted on July 9, 2019 by Gray Connections
Until just a few years ago, chemotherapy was often the only option for some cancer patients. In just a few short years, molecular therapies and immunotherapies have become commonplace as treatments for cancer patients. But determining whether a particular cancer patient is a candidate for these new, often very expensive, molecular and immunotherapies requires molecular biomarker testing. For many cancer patients and their families, the role of molecular biomarker testing in their diagnosis is a unfamiliar and confusing. How is testing performed? How is the test result analyzed? What is involved in… Read More
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