Posted on February 8, 2016 by Gray Connections
#LCSM Chat Topic 11-Feb: Online collaboration and support in the #LCSM community
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
Lung Cancer Bloggers Mark World Cancer Day 2016
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
Posted on January 11, 2016 by Gray Connections
#LCSM Chat Topic 1/14: What Clinical Questions Can We Study to Improve Lung Cancer Treatment Outcomes?
Our topic for the next #LCSM Tweet Chat on Thursday, January 14th at 5 PM Pacific (8 PM Eastern) is “What Clinical Questions Can We Study to Improve Lung Cancer Treatment Outcomes?” In this chat, moderator Dr. David Tom Cooke (@DavidCookeMD) will facilitate brainstorming for clinical trial ideas. The chat is a continuation of #LCSM Chat’s ongoing Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded project, entitled “Empowering Patients and Their Families to Improve Outcomes That Are Most Important to Them after Surgery and Other Therapies for Lung Cancer.” Patient-centered outcomes… Read More
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