#LCSM Chat Preview March 13 – Stress, Anxiety and Lung Cancer: How Do You Cope?

Patients and caregivers experience considerable stress and anxiety as a result of lung cancer diagnosis and treatment. How do you handle stress? Is it possible to prevent stress or is it ‘just a part of life’?  Some individuals handle stress and anxiety better than others. We want to explore this topic in more detail during this week’s #LCSM chat. T1: What kinds of stress do lung cancer patients experience due to their cancer diagnosis or treatment?  T2: What can healthcare providers do to help reduce stress for a lung cancer patient or caregiver?… Read More

Call to Action: Tell Medicare and Medicaid to Cover Lung Cancer Screening

Anyone can get lung cancer. Screening for lung cancer with low dose CT scans (LDCT) can save thousands of lives every year. Many private health insurers already provide coverage for this screening. Tell the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) you want them to provide coverage too. On February 10, CMS opened a 30-day comment period to support their national coverage analysis on Lung Cancer Screening with LDCT. This comment period closes on March 12, 2014. Please sign this petition to tell CMS to provide coverage for LDCT, and ask everyone… Read More

#LCSM Chat 13-Feb-2014: “Brainstorming: How Do We Erase the Stigma of Lung Cancer?”

Erasing the stigma of lung cancer is one of the goals of all advocates who fight for more lung cancer awareness and funding.  But sometimes it’s hard to know how to go about it. The focus of the #LCSM Chat on February 13 at 8 PM ET will be “Brainstorming: How Do We Erase the Stigma of Lung Cancer?”  Imagine we have unlimited funds, political influence in all the right places, ready access to every medical professional, and all the trained, eloquent workers we need.  What actions would erase the stigma of lung cancer?… Read More