#LCSM Chat Topic 2/23:Living with Cancer–What’s in your Toolbox?

Whether you’ve been diagnosed recently, or have been living with it for years, daily life with cancer can be a challenge. Of course, different disease stages and treatments will have an impact on the types of challenges patients, caretakers and physicians face. Nevertheless, there are common strategies or tools that can improve quality of life (QOL) for most patients. Moderator Deana Hendrickson (@lungcancerfaces) will pose the following questions to help gently guide this week’s conversation: T1: How can spirituality and/or faith play a role in improving QOL for patients? Examples? #LCSM T2: Does… Read More

#LCSM Chat Topic 2/9: Flip the Clinic for Lung Cancer–What Works Best?

Our topic for the next #LCSM tweetchat on Thursday, February 9th at 5 PM Pacific (8 PM Eastern) is “Flip the Clinic for Lung Cancer: What Works Best?” Flip the Clinic is an open experiment to transform the patient-clinician experience. The movement was started in 2013 by the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation and was the topic of an #LCSM Chat about two years ago. There is much medical literature about what constitutes best practices in the care of lung cancer patients. However, patient-centered research has only recently began investigating the best ways… Read More

#LCSM Chat Topic 10/6: Cancer Cure vs. Chronic Disease: How Critical is the Difference?

Our topic for the next #LCSM Tweet Chat on Thursday, October 6, at 5 PM Pacific (8 PM Eastern) is “Cancer Cure vs. Chronic Disease: How Critical is the Difference?” The moderator for this chat is Dr. Jack West (@JackWestMD). Curing cancer is among the most valued goals in the world, both on an individual and a more global basis, and it is really at the pinnacle of the “cancer moonshot” effort. But as we try to translate these goals into practice, and as I talk with my patients in the clinic, it’s clear… Read More