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MS 19 - Elevating the Lung Cancer Voice: Raising Awareness and Creating Community (ID 541)
- Event: WCLC 2017
- Type: Mini Symposium
- Track: Patient Advocacy
- Presentations: 1
- Moderators:Toshiyuki Sawa, A.C. Škufca Smrdel
- Coordinates: 10/17/2017, 15:45 - 17:30, Room 315
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MS 19.01 - Transformative Science in the Community (ID 7732)
15:45 - 16:05 | Presenting Author(s): Jim Baranski
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This presentation will discuss 3 discoveries that radically changed our understanding of lung cancer. It will also address the challenges faced in communicating these life-saving “bench to bedside” discoveries to patients. In 2007, the National Science Foundation (NSF) released a report on the meaning of “transformative research” (TR) as follows: "Transformative research involves ideas, discoveries, or tools that radically change our understanding of an important existing scientific or engineering concept or educational practice or leads to the creation of a new paradigm or field of science, engineering, or education. Such research challenges current understanding or provides pathways to new frontiers.” Discoveries that changed our understanding of lung cancer: 1. PD-1/PD-L1: The discovery of PD-1 leads to development of PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors i.e. immunotherapy. 2. Gene Defects: The discovery of gene defects/mutations leads to understanding that lung cancer is in fact many lung cancer mutations and leads to development of targeted therapies and precision medicine. 3. National Lung Cancer Screening Trial (NLST): The NLST lead to the conclusion that low dose CT scans can detect lung cancer earlier and lead to better treatment options and increased survivorship for lung cancer. In the United States, according to a recent study by Northwestern University’s Kellogg MBA program, the public is dangerously uninformed about our nation’s second leading cause of death; only behind heart disease. Lung cancer accounts for more deaths than any other cancer. More than breast, prostate and colon cancer combined! An estimated 155,870 deaths are expected to occur in 2017 in the United States, accounting for about 26% of all cancer deaths. However, federal funding for lung cancer research per death was just $1,680 compared to $24,846 for breast, $12,644 for prostate and $6,344 for colon. Not surprisingly, lung cancer has the lowest 5-year survival rate of the other most common cancers: only 18%, versus prostate at 99%; breast at 89%; and colorectal at 65%. It is clear that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death, and yet, it is tragically underfunded in terms of research. We will explore communication tactics including multimedia public awareness campaigns, public service announcements and social media most effective in raising the voice of lung cancer and the impact of “transformative research” in the community.
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