#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?
Our moderator for this chat, Laronica Conway, will use these topics to get the discussion going:
- T1: How would you erase lung cancer stigma among individuals? Billboards? Front-page articles? Doorbelling? Be specific.
- T2: How would you erase lung cancer stigma among healthcare professionals? What would you need to do this?
- T3: How would you erase lung cancer stigma among government officials and lawmakers? What would you need to do this?
- T4: How would you erase lung cancer stigma among lung cancer patients and their families?
To prepare for this chat, you might wish to read some of the articles about lung cancer stigma on our new “Lung Cancer in the Media” page.
Guidelines on how to participate in an #LCSM Chat can be found on the “#LCSM Chat” page of the #LCSM website. Hope to see you on Twitter!
Background reading
Dear Lung Cancer Patient Who Smoked
Can we erase lung cancer stigma without mentioning “smoking”?
Breast cancer, lung cancer, AIDS: unorthodox thoughts about stigma
A systematic review of the impact of stigma and nihilism on lung cancer outcomes
Stigma among patients with lung cancer: a patient-reported measurement model
Lung cancer stigma, anxiety, depression, and quality of life
Lung cancer stigma, anxiety, depression and symptom severity
Explorations of lung cancer stigma for female long-term survivors
Lung cancer stigma, depression, and quality of life among ever and never smokers
#LCSM Salutes World Cancer Day
Tomorrow, February 4th, is World Cancer Day. The focus this year is Target 5 of the World Cancer Declaration: reduce stigma and dispel myths about cancer. The World Cancer Day campaign seeks to “Debunk the myths” of cancer:
- We don’t need to talk about cancer
- There are no signs or symptoms of cancer
- There’s nothing I can do about cancer
- I don’t have the right to cancer care
This focus parallels the goal of #LCSM “to educate, develop public support, end the stigma, and facilitate successful treatments for the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide.”
On World Cancer Day, we hope the #LCSM community will take the opportunity to tweet about lung cancer as well as cancer in general. Be sure to use “#LCSM” as well as “#WorldCancerDay” in your tweets so followers of both communities can see them. You can find a list of tweet-sized facts and the supporting documents on our Lung Cancer Facts page. Or, if you prefer, just retweet #LCSM tweets that appear during the day.
Happy tweeting!
#LCSM January 30 Chat Preview: Practice-changing Advances in Lung Cancer Treatment
By Dr. H. Jack West
On Thursday, January 30th from 8-9 PM ET\5-6 PM PT, we’ll convene for another #LCSM tweet chat, transitioning from the biggest developments from 2013 and look forward into the most promising anticipated developments in 2014. Specifically, during the hour, we’ll cover what people think might be the leading advances that change the practice of lung cancer treatment in the three main modalities: surgery, radiation and systemic treatment (also including molecular testing and targeting therapies, as well as immunotherapy).
We’ll be seeking input from people with expertise in each of these realms, to provide an insider track into what they think is most promising and likely to come to fruition. Along with the insights of those delivering lung cancer treatments with each of these modalities, we’ll solicit input from patients, caregivers and others invested in lung cancer about what advances, hopefully attainable in the near future, you would consider to be at the top of your wish list.
Join us this coming Thursday for a glimpse into the not too distant future about how the field of lung cancer management is likely to move forward or at least how we hope it to. Just add the #LCSM hashtag and add to the growing momentum.
#LCSM 
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