For context, I made this slide for a talk I gave on PROs - patients r the only reliable source of data on QOL, severity of sympt/AEs & impact on daily life. Grade 1 can impact, esp when persistent & managing them is a $$ tox! Tolerable is @ being able to function, to LIVE. #LCSM

Financial toxicity is a reality for many families impacted by lung cancer as shown by our Lung Cancer Europe report as well as the other two presentations in this morning's session #WCLC24 GO2 for Lung Cancer LUNGevity Foundation #WCLC24

Great to see the Irish rep. across many disciplines at #WCLC24 Take 1 the action shot! (1/2) Gerry Hanna Jarushka Naidoo Seamus Cotter Patrick Forde Dr Martin Barr Seamus Cotter David O Reilly Jane Sui Trinity St James's Cancer Institute Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre #IrishLungCancerCommunity #IrishLungCancerAlliance CancerTrialsIreland 🌈

Take 2 - the still life one! (2/2) Gerry Hanna Jarushka Naidoo Seamus Cotter Patrick Forde Dr Martin Barr Seamus Cotter David O Reilly Jane Sui Trinity St James's Cancer Institute Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre #IrishLungCancerCommunity #IrishLungCancerAlliance CancerTrialsIreland 🌈 #WCLC24

#WCLC24 Immunotherapy mini-orals Pleased to present an analysis of the use of proteomic signatures to identify immune-related toxicities including specific irAEs in patients with NSCLC, & to differentiate these from those from chemotherapy IASLC OncoHost Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre 1/1

Great to hear from Yvonne Diaz on the work that is being done in the UK including new biobanks 👏👏👏 #WCLC24 Oncogene Cancer Research

LUCE President Dr Dr Anne-Marie Baird, a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, gave a really insightful and well-received presentation on the final day of the World Conference on Lung Cancer in San Diego. #WCLC24 1/3

Photos courtesy of Bellinda King-Kallimanis and Seamus Cotter. Details of the sessions including abstracts can be found here: cattendee.abstractsonline.com/meeting/20598/… #WCLC24 3/3

We have recently launched two new videos for #ALK+ patients which can be accessed via our website. Please take a look & refer your patients to alkpositive.org.uk Lung Cancer Nursing UK BTOG BOPA Committee Scottish Thoracic Society Welsh Thoracic Society #IrishLungCancerCommunity Gerry Hanna Seamus Cotter

So delighted to present our wonderful #RadOnc Lung Cancer Nurse Fiona Liston at SLRON St James's Hospital with a white ribbon from The White Ribbon Project™ sent by Drew Moghanaki 🐕 from #WCLC24 Fiona thanks for all the fabulous work you do for patients with lung cancer🤍🫁 #thewhiteribbonproject

We are one of the wealthiest countries in Europe and have the second highest incidence of cancer, but Ireland only reimbursed 29% of EMA approved cancer drugs compared to 96% in Germany. We are failing cancer patients. Micheál Martin Simon Harris TD

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Ireland is a pharmaceutical hub developing & exporting cutting-edge cancer drugs. It's shameful to see us so far down the list when it comes to funding of these drugs for our own citizens 😞 we can and must do better. #CancerInequalities

Irish Lung Cancer community together at WCLC24 - Gerry Hanna Jarushka Naidoo Dr Anne-Marie Baird Patrick Forde Dr Martin Barr #IrishLungCancerCommunity Seamus Cotter David O Reilly #Cancer #CancerCare #OncoDaily #Oncology #lcsm oncodaily.com/url/139248.html

I love my advocate friends ❤️ Advocates aren’t #demure, because progress doesn’t come from staying quiet. We must speak up, stand tall, and push boundaries to provoke change #AdvocateLoudly #MakeCancerLessShitty

The Grey Zone for Systemic Therapies in Locally Advanced NSCLC - IASLC Seamus Cotter Ryan Gentzler, MD Greg Durm Julia Rotow MD Enriqueta Felip #Cancer #IASLC #OncoDaily #Oncology #lcsm oncodaily.com/url/140159.html

Brilliant perspective on early-stage NSCLC from Dr. Jarushka Naidoo at the LUNGevity Foundation ILCSC conference today. Insightful questions from the audience and Dr. Dr. Amy C. Moore on differences between driver positive and negative NSCLC and the evolving role of ctDNA and other biomarkers.

Amazing camera work by LindaJackson at #poolbeglighthouse for the World Gynecologic Oncology Day #Dip4GODay with Ivana Bacik Cumann Báire Chaoimhín Yvonne O’Meara Faye Lewis

If you haven't already had a listen, please do 🙏 . wishes she'd had the information needed to recognise the symptoms of her ovarian cancer earlier. She has a lot of wisdom to share with you for World Gynecologic Oncology Day 💜👇#gynaecancers #WorldGODay2024

Last week, I had the honor of presenting 4 #TWRP ribbons, signed by Hudson Hollenbeck and his 2023 National Champion Michigan Football teammates, to Dr. Estela Rodriguez Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Jeffrey Velotta MD FACS KPNorthernCal, Leah Backhus MD MPH FACS Stanford Medicine, and Stephen V Liu, MD Georgetown Lombardi at IASLC #WCLC24 #LCSM