#LCSM Chat Topic 10/04/2018: Highlights from #WCLC2018

After a summer hiatus, #LCSM Chat is returning to Twitter!  Our first chat of the fall will be on Thursday, October 04, at 5pm Pacific Time (8 pm Eastern).  We will be reviewing key presentations from the IASLC 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer (#WCLC2018) held September 23-26 in Toronto, Canada.  Our special guests for this chat will be the Communications Team from the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), the organizers of WCLC, and our moderator will be Janet Freeman-Daily (@JFreemanDaily). WCLC abstracts may be oral presentations (20… Read More

#LCSM Chat Topic 1/11: Defining “hope” for lung cancer

Ten years ago, patients diagnosed with lung cancer did not have much hope for effective treatment. Now targeted therapy, immunotherapy, and other treatment innovations offer hope that many more lung cancer patients might live for years beyond the old survival expectations. Yet even with all the advances in medical care, not all lung cancer patients have access to the best treatment options, metastatic lung cancer patients are still not curable, and lung cancer patients still die. Does this mean we have no hope?  No! Hope means a lot of things. Hope can… Read More

#LCSM Chat Topic 10/19: World Conference on Lung Cancer (#WCLC2017) Wrap-Up

Please join the #LCSM community and moderator Brendon Stiles  (@BrendonStilesMD) for the next #LCSM Chat on Thursday, October 19th, at 8 pm Eastern Time (5 pm Pacific).  The topic of the chat will be “World Conference on Lung Cancer 2017 Wrap-Up.” The annual World Conference on Lung Cancer, known on Twitter this year as #WCLC2017, is the world’s largest meeting dedicated to lung cancer.  Hosted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (@IASLC), the conference is taking place from October 15-18th in Yokohama, Japan.  The conference’s motto, “Synergy to… Read More