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As we begin our new year, there has been a word floating in the air and in our conversations that has been missing from our thoughts for a long time: Hope. We have hope that we are finally seeing [...]
For Wayne Yeung, being a caregiver means learning to live with uncertainty. His wife, Rebecca, was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2017. He’s been on the cancer journey with her from Day 1. Yeung is a winner of the [...]
As we enter the start of a fresh, new year, here’s a sneak peek of the exciting new opportunities and familiar favorites we will be bringing you in 2021 with GO2 for Lung Cancer Events: [...]
In a year full of challenges for everyone, there was a silver lining for lung cancer patients in the form of the abundance of new approvals by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In 2020 there were approvals for [...]
Hippocrates made a keen observation more than 2,400 years ago, “It is more important to know what kind of patient has the disease than what kind of disease the patient has.” This statement could not ring truer then [...]
Thank you to everyone who sponsored, donated and participated in Simply the Best XV Virtual Gala on November 14, 2020. Your generous donations helped raise over $650,000 for the patient programs and [...]
While we entered the year 2020 celebrating the largest one-year drop in cancer mortality, it wasn’t long before a new “C” entered the national conscience: COVID-19. For the lung cancer community in particular, COVID-19 presents a unique threat. Several [...]
With most spring and fall endurance races cancelled this year, many races offered a virtual option. At GO2 for Lung Cancer, we had over a dozen endurance athletes already committed, training, and fundraising for “bucket list” fall races including [...]
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month (#lcam), a time for us to pull out the bullhorn and amplify our collective voices to speak up and speak out about the importance of screening, comprehensive biomarker testing, research, funding, community engagement, [...]
Today’s blog presents Christine Lovly, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research, and Co-leader of the Translational Research and Interventional Oncology Research Program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Lovly was recently named Chair of our [...]