October 8, 2010
CancerCare is catching the attention of thousands of commuters on the Long Island Railroad with a new platform ad promoting our Annual Lung Cancer Walk, on Nov. 7 in Woodbury, Long Island, featuring this year’s honorary chair, National Hockey League and New York Islanders great Bobby Nystrom. Check it out!
LIRR Ad for Upcoming Lung Cancer Walk
Hockey fans will recall Nystrom’s 1980 winning goal in overtime against Philadelphia that snagged the first of four consecutive Stanley Cups for the Islanders. Today, Nystrom, who retired from the Islanders in 1986, is a successful health care executive on Long Island and still playing to win — for people facing lung cancer.
CancerCare‘s Walk, now in its eighth year, benefits our National Lung Cancer Program, which provides free, professional support services to anyone affected by lung cancer.
The Lung Cancer Walk has grown rapidly over the past seven years, from 60 walkers in 2003 to nearly 1,000 walkers in 2009. Last year’s walkers and sponsors in Long Island raised a record $200,000 for the National Lung Cancer Program.
This year, the Walk is expanding to the West Coast with a second location and date. If you live near or are visiting the San Francisco area, please join us in Palo Alto, California on Sunday, Nov. 14 for CancerCare‘s Lung Cancer Walk – California event! Please visit the Lung Cancer Walk website to learn more and register.
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Posted by Kyle Hornyak
September 22, 2010
MAGRIT, a large study in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, seeks volunteers who have had surgery to remove their tumor. Over 400 medical centers in 33 countries are participating in the study.
Visit the study’s website to learn about what MAGRIT involves, if you are eligible for this study, and to find a study center close to you. It’s best to consult with your doctor first to determine whether you should participate.
CancerCare offers reliable information about clinical trials and how they can improve the quality of your care. You can read our free booklets and fact sheets about lung cancer and clinical trials directly on our website. In addition, on Friday, September 24, leading experts on clinical trials will answer your questions and concerns in the Connect Education Workshop, The Important Role of Clinical Trials. Register for the live discussion here.
Through the CancerCare Co-Payment Assistance Foundation, people undergoing treatment for non-small cell lung cancer who have health insurance coverage may be eligible to receive up to $10,000 per year in co-payment assistance.
You can help show your support for people facing lung cancer by participating in CancerCare’s 8th annual Lung Cancer Walk. This year, the walk will be held in two locations: on Sunday, November 7 in Woodbury, NY, and on Sunday, November 14, in Palo Alto, CA. The Walks raise funds to support CancerCare‘s free, professional services for anyone affected by lung cancer. To register, visit our Lung Cancer Walk website.
To learn more about lung cancer and CancerCare’s services for people affected by lung cancer, visit lungcancer.org.
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Posted by Kyle Hornyak
April 5, 2010
Be a Survivor—Lung Cancer Treatment Guide is an optimistic, encouraging treatment guide that details the lung cancer experience from diagnosis to recovery.
The guidebook was written by Vladimir Lange, M.D. to empower patients to seek a cure, rather than to accept defeat. “New treatments, new drugs, and earlier diagnosis make survival much more likely than it was just a few years ago,” he notes.
CancerCare Lung Cancer Program Coordinator Win Boerkel calls Be a Survivor “one of the best lung cancer patient guides I’ve seen in my 13 years of working with lung cancer patients.”
In 2009, CancerCare collaborated with leading patient advocacy groups to launch The Lung Cancer Clinical Trial Call to Action campaign, designed to help patients and their families navigate the complicated landscape of researching and identifying clinical trials. Patients can call 1-800-698-0931 to be matched with a Clinical Trial Specialist who will guide them through the entire process.
The CancerCare Co-Payment Assistance Foundation offers up to $10,000 per year in co-payment assistance for lung cancer patients in their families.
To order the guide, call 1-888-LANGE-88 (888-526-4388), or print out and fax back the order form.
Learn more about our free services for lung cancer patients and visit our sister website, www.lungcancer.org.
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Posted by Kyle Hornyak
November 24, 2009
This year’s Lung Cancer Awareness Month has ushered in a new sense of hopefulness about better treatments in the future for lung cancer.
Continued developments in targeted therapy are leading more oncology researchers to investigate personalized treatments for lung cancer. It’s important to note that lung cancer was one of the first cancers in which targeted therapy was found to help a segment of people dealing with late-stage lung cancer. Today’s newer targeted therapies offer the promise of improved treatment outcomes for many more types of lung cancer. For more information, read CancerCare‘s free publications, A New Class of Drugs: Targeted Treatments for Cancer, Progress in the Treatment of Lung Cancer, and Your Guide to the Latest Cancer Research and Treatments (Lung Cancer).
Unfortunately, people coping with lung cancer are still saddled with a significant emotional burden arising from the stigma of the diagnosis, which can have a negative impact on the views of even the professionals themselves who treat lung cancer patients. The stigma also exacerbates emotional stress among family members of the lung cancer patient, especially when that person has a smoking history. And, patients themselves often react with guilt and shame to their lung cancer diagnosis which may interfere with their doing all they can to comply with their treatment.
A great deal of work needs to be done to address the social stigma of lung cancer so that the diagnosis, like all other cancers, can finally be acknowledged as a “no fault” medical event for patients. Because the simple fact is, no one deserves lung cancer.
Learn more about CancerCare‘s free, professional support services for lung cancer patients and their loved ones.
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Posted by Win Boerckel
November 19, 2009
People diagnosed with lung cancer may benefit from a newly launched campaign to match lung cancer patients with current clinical trials based on their individual situations.
The Lung Cancer Clinical Trial Call to Action campaign offers easy-to-use educational and trial-matching resources to help identify clinical trials that are appropriate to each patient’s diagnosis, stage and treatment history.
The campaign is a collaboration of six leading patient advocacy organizations, including CancerCare’s lungcancer.org, a leading resource for people affected by lung cancer.
Patients can access the Lung Cancer Clinical Trial Matching Service online by visiting www.lungcancer.org or by calling 1-800-698-0931, to speak directly with a clinical trial specialist who can guide them through the entire process.
Other organizations in the campaign include the Lung Cancer Alliance, Uniting Against Lung Cancer, National Lung Cancer Partnership, LUNGevity and the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago. EmergingMed is the service provider for the Lung Cancer Clinical Trials Matching Service.
The effort is being supported by several major pharmaceutical companies dedicated to the fight against lung cancer, including Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Amgen Inc., AstraZeneca, Genentech BioOncology, and Pfizer Oncology.
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Posted by Jeanie M. Barnett
