LAST CHANCE to Watch ILCSC 2022 On-Demand 

Thank you to all of the survivors, caregivers, expert speakers, and exhibitors who came together to make the 4th annual International Lung Cancer Survivorship Conference a great success! If you missed it or just want to revisit a session, be sure to register to receive a login by August 15. All videos will remain available to view with a login credential until October 15.

LUNGevity @ WCLC 2022 

We are proud to share LUNGevity’s participation in the 2022 IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) in Vienna, Austria, on August 6-9. The WCLC is a highly influential conference and the largest international gathering in the field of lung cancer and thoracic oncology, with over 7,000 attendees. Upal Basu Roy, PhD, MPH, LUNGevity’s Executive Director of Research, and Bellinda King-Kallimanis, PhD, Director of Patient-Focused Research, were in attendance presenting the following:

• Early findings from Project PEER - A Longitudinal Real-World Study to Understand the Experience of Patients With Lung Cancer and Their Caregivers
• Their work on increasing patient-friendliness of informed consent forms (Project REFORM) - Initial Steps in Creating a Patient-Centric Addendum to Clinical Trial Informed Consent Forms
• Patient and healthcare provider perspectives on the US FDA Oncology Center of Excellence “Project Patient Voice” website - Interim Feedback on Pilot Public Facing Website for Cancer Clinical Trial Patient-Reported Symptom Data: Project Patient Voice

Abstracts for all LUNGevity presentations can be found here.

New Fall Meetup Schedule  

LUNGevity offers several virtual meetups per week, with sessions dedicated to a single mutation or subtype, a monthly session just for caregivers, as well as general meetups. Whether you are new to your diagnosis or have been navigating the disease for many years, you can find encouragement, valuable information, and true friendship.

On Tuesday, August 23, at 12 pm EDT, meetup participants will be joined by experts from the University of Colorado BfitBwell Cancer Exercise Program. The BfitBwell program is designed to help decrease fatigue, improve strength and balance, and establish lifelong positive behavior changes. Get more information on how to register!

August is National Make-A-Will Month: Protect all you love 

Our partnership with FreeWill: a free estate planning resource enables you to plan for your future and protect all the people, possessions, and causes that you value. Take a moment this National Make-A-Will Month to learn about creating your legal will at no cost. Read more on our blog.

Upcoming Webinars 

We are pleased to present several expert webinars in the month of August!

Tune in to LUNGevity’s Facebook page on August 16 for a webinar on the importance of biomarker testing with a focus on scientific progress in KRAS treatments, in partnership with Amgen and featuring Hatim Husain, MD, Medical Oncologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at UC-San Diego.

Also via Facebook Live on August 25 is Sound Up for Lung Cancer, in partnership with Novartis. Sound Up aims to empower people affected by lung cancer to self-advocate by asking questions, expressing their needs, and having open conversations with their health care providers about their experiences. The conversation will be moderated by LUNGevity’s Care Navigator, Angela James, LMSW.

Finally, in partnership with IASLC and moderated by Janet Freeman-Daily of the ROS1ders patient group and IASLC’s Supportive Training for Advocates on Research & Science (STARS) program, LUNGevity is hosting a webinar on Advocacy Opportunities in Cancer Drug Development and Regulatory Approval. The webinar is scheduled for August 29 at 11 am EDT – register here.