Posted on November 17, 2013 by #LCSM Chat
For Lung Cancer Awareness Month (#LCAM2013), the #LCSM team compiled a list of tweet-sized lung cancer facts – one tweet for each day in November. We ask all #LCSM participants and lung cancer advocates to tweet the fact of the day at noon Eastern time (9 AM Pacific) to help with trending. You can come here to copy the tweet of the day, or if you prefer, you can retweet the fact after @LCSMChat tweets each day at 11:55 AM Eastern Time. Our tweets for the third week of Lung Cancer Awareness Month… Read More
Posted on October 5, 2013 by #LCSM Chat
By Dr. H. Jack West One ongoing controversy in the world of managing cancer, especially one in which cures are elusive, is how high the bar should be to guide treatment recommendations. The “gold standard” to change treatment is a significant improvement in the primary endpoint, ideally overall survival, in a prospective, randomized phase III trial with several hundred or even several thousand people. In some settings, treatment recommendations may not even change until a few randomized phase III trials show the same significant improvement with a new treatment approach. But the reality is that sometimes we want… Read More
Posted on September 15, 2013 by #LCSM Chat
By Dr. H. Jack West We are in the midst of a remarkable transitional time in cancer care that is exciting but challenging, since we now have patients divided into smaller and smaller groups based on molecular markers. Along with that, more and more patients and caregivers are participating in social media and online discussion groups. What are the implications for these changes, and how can we use them to accelerate the pace of clinical research? I’d like to focus on a couple of key questions for our next lung cancer tweetchat… Read More
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