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
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
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