Stage 4 Lung Cancer Survivor, Speaker ,Advocate ,Consumer Reviewer for DOD, LCRP ,stable on Tarceva for six years,now back in Battle Mode on immunotherapy.
Our Chief Scientific Officer @PritiHegde joined us at the first-ever #FMIUPLIFT Summit and shared her thoughts on the importance of #mentorship and the power of having a diversified team. #FMIimpact#WomeninSTEM
Lung-MAP, a self sustaining Master Protocol, public-private partnership, designed to bring novel new therapies to lung cancer patients. Over 450 sites from which patients can be enrolled. Join us.
Foundation Medicine’s first-ever #Uplift Summit celebrated and empowered the talented women of Foundation Medicine who work so hard every day to transform cancer care and make #PrecisionMedicine a reality. #WomenInSTEM
Eight years ago, I learned my #lungcancer had spread immediately after curative treatment. My oncologist said simce I was relatively young and otherwise healthy, I had maybe 2 years. Thanks to research, he was spectacularly wrong. Please support #cancerresearch! #LCSM
We need help from the entire Twitterverse! This the ONLY DEDICATED lung cancer research funding from the Federal government and it's in Jeopardy. Please help us by clicking on the link, take action (2 minutes of your time) and then share. #LCSM https://t.co/wnE2YmwSy3
Wishing I could be with my patient advocate tweeps at #MedX. Alas, it came too soon after #WCLC19 in Barcelona Spain, and travel is tough on me. We patients have to consider the impact of a conference not only on our advocacy, but also on our health. #LCSM#BCSM
High five to @SWOG member Dr. Jeffrey Berenberg from @UHCancerCenter for this great @theNCI award to boost the number of minority and rural patients in cancer clinical trials. You're fighting the good fight for equity. #NCORP @NCIprevention https://t.co/4uc4HhClqF
Strong (but relevant) statement at #WCLC19.
It is criminal and should be medical malpractice to start a young never smoker with adenocarcinoma on chemo/IO without first checking molecular markers.
What does the #oncoalert team say? #lcsm@EGFRResisters @ALKLungCancer @IASLC
@franky_h2o@don450sl Hope to live longer as a metastatic #lungcancer patient?
1-Be an active self-advocate
2-Get a second opinion from a lung cancer specialist
3-Become active in the online LC community (like #LCSM)
4-Be lucky enough to live when LC research and treatments are advancing rapidly!
Thank you to Don Stranathan, a #survivor + supporter of GO2 Foundation, who celebrated his 10 year cancerversary by hosting a Celebrating Survivorship party+fundraiser. Check out the Life Link chain survivors created—1 link for each year of life since diagnosis! #LCSM#lungcancer
This is important. In the basking glow of immunotherapy (from patients, doctors & media), it is tempting to default to IO before driver mutation testing.
Please don't do it. This may delay more effective therapy and potentially even compromise delivery of that therapy. #lcsm