During November for Lung Cancer Awareness Month (LCAM), GO2 for Lung Cancer and the LCAM Coalition hosted a special Lung Cancer Living Room to discuss stigma.
The LCAM Coalition raises awareness about lung cancer and the need for more research, screening, and treatment options to improve survival.
Lung Cancer Living Room host and GO2 Chief Patient Officer, Danielle Hicks, was joined by members of the lung cancer community from India, England, South Africa, and the United States to discuss the world-wide challenges around lung cancer stigma, the role patient advocacy organizations and people living with lung cancer can play to help eradicate stigma, and how we can all work together to humanize lung cancer.
Speakers:
- Navneet Singh, MD, Professor of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh, India
- Rachel Avery, Director of Marketing and Communications, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
- Heidi and Pierre Onda, Co-Founders, The White Ribbon Project
- Lauren Pretorius, Chief Executive Officer, Campaigning for Cancer
- Danielle Hicks, Chief Patient Officer, GO2 for Lung Cancer
Discussed in this episode:
- The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation is the leading UK lung cancer charity dedicated to helping everyone affected by the disease.
- Roy Castle’s Head High Awareness Campaign aims to show the people behind the disease by sharing their stories to raise awareness and challenge the unfair stigma of lung cancer.
- The White Ribbon Project promotes awareness about lung cancer by changing public perception of the disease.
- Campaigning for Cancer’s vision is a South Africa where people affected by cancer receive fair, appropriate, timely, and respectful treatment and care.
Please join us on Jan. 16 at 5:30 p.m. PT/8:30 p.m. ET for our first Lung Cancer Living Room of the new year. Join in person at our San Carlos, CA office or watch on YouTube Live.
For more information on the Lung Cancer Living Room, other GO2 for Lung Cancer programs, or support through diagnosis and treatment, please call our HelpLine at 1-800-298-2436 or email support@go2.org.
I am very interested in the Lung Cancer Living Room program. I have had NSCLC for over 5 years. In January 2023 my Oncologist stopped my chemo treatment and I have not had any treatment since. I was going to treatment every 3 weeks for 5 years, the doctors said that the chemo was killing me, my weight went from 174 to 95 within the last year on chemo. I want to do something because I feel that I am just sitting here waiting to die and I can’t do that. I will be watching the Lung Cancer Living Room program. Thank you for all you do for Lung cancer patients.
Hi Lori. We’d love to have you join our Living Room community. Our colleague who leads our Living Room events will be reaching out to make sure that you know how to join us this month.