#LCSM Chat 4/7: Cancersplaining–navigating tough moments

Lung cancer patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers face many tough moments in which communicating about cancer care can be difficult: An acquaintance approaches a patient with an unproven herbal remedy that will CURE CANCER! A spouse wants to express their concern over the patient’s symptoms, or emotions the caregiver is experiencing. A healthcare provider believes a test the patient wants will not help them or will delay the start of treatment. In some cases, the person attempting to share information may know less about the subject than the person they’re talking to,… Read More

How Can We Overcome Hurdles in Clinical Lung Cancer Research?

By H Jack West, MD People with lung cancer today benefit from a growing range of new cancer treatments that provide the promise of dramatic and long-lasting responses. Whether refinements in our chemotherapy, new targeted therapies, exciting immunotherapy strategies, or other novel agents or combinations, the development of these advances is exciting and based on the completion of important clinical trials. The investigators running trials of novel agents, as well as the companies developing them and the research groups helping to manage them, are eager to enroll on these studies and learn… Read More

#LCSM Chat Topic 3/10: Living Metastatic (#AMSM)–common experiences across cancers

#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