CAP Lung Cancer is very excited about our new program we are providing to lung cancer patients and their loved ones. The CAP Lung Cancer Medical Writers' Circle is intended to provide information to help patients and their loved ones make informed decisions about their health and to provide hope and compassion regardless of expected prognosis.

Each month, a new article will be posted on the CAP Internet site and will be sent out via e-blast to our constituents. The frequency of the posting will increase as the authorship grows.

• COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS IN LUNG CANCER MANAGEMENT: TIME FOR CHANGE-July, 2009
  Frederic W. Grannis Jr. M.D.

• DETECTING LUNG CANCER WITH CHEST X-RAYS
  Dr. Charles White

• THE DIAGNOSIS AND STAGING OF LUNG CANCER
  Tze-Ming Chen, MD, George Horng, MD, Kevin Knopf, MD, Stephen Bunker, MD, Jacqueline Duffy, RN, and Peter Anastassiou, MD

• EARLY DETECTION OF LUNG CANCER-June, 2009
  William C. “Bud” Pierce, MD, PhD

• EML4-ALK: Newly Discovered Mutation Brings New Insights and New Potential Treatment-December, 2009
  Howard “Jack” West, MD

• EMOTIONAL EFFECTS OF LUNG CANCER ON SURVIVORS AND THEIR SPOUSES
  Cindy L. Carmack, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

• EPIGENETIC THERAPY FOR LUNG CANCER- November, 2011
  John M. Wrangle MD, MPH

• FOCUS ON CHINESE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE-October, 2009
  Misha Ruth Cohen, OMD, L.Ac.

• LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS: THE ROLE OF THE PATIENT NAVIGATOR
  Brenda Wilcox, RN, BSN, OCN

• LUNG CANCER, AGAIN-August, 2009
  Janet Healy is the grant writer for an Indian tribe in Washington State. Ms. Healy worked for the Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, and Education (ALCASE), the first national lung cancer patient advocacy organization, from 1998 until its move to Washington, DC in 2004 and redefinition as the Lung Cancer Alliance.

• "LUNG CANCER IN NEVER-SMOKERS"-May, 2009
  Heather Wakelee, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology Stanford, University Stanford Cancer Center

• THE MAGRIT LUNG CANCER VACCINE TRIAL
  Mathew Ninan, MD, FACS, FRCS(C/Th), FETCS, MSCI. Midsouth Regional Thoracic Center Memphis, Tennessee

• PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND LUNG CANCER SURVIVORSHIP
  Dr. Lee W. Jones is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology and Research Director of Cancer Survivorship at Duke University Medical Center.

• PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW LUNG CANCER STAGING SYSTEM
  Rodolfo E. Bordoni, MD

• SMOKING CESSATION: AN INTEGRAL PART OF LUNG CANCER TREATMENT
  Janine Cataldo, PhD, RN, as Assistant Professor, Department of Physiological Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco

• SOME OBSERVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF LUNG CANCER PATIENTS WITH MORE THAN ONE TUMOR.
  Frederic W. Grannis Jr. M.D., Clinical Professor of Thoracic Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center

• STACKED STIGMA IN THE LUNG CANCER EXPERIENCE
  Annemarie Conlon, MBA, LCSW

• TARGETING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM TO TREAT SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER - November, 2010
  Alberto A. Chiappori, MD

• The Truth about Lung Cancer- a Surgeon’s Perspective and Commentary
  Jonathan Kiev, MD, Sibley Memorial Hospital, John Hopkins Medicine

• TWICE BETRAYED: LIVING WITH LUNG CANCER AND DEALING WITH STIGMA
  Susan Hedlund, MSW, LCSW

The Caring Ambassadors Lung Cancer Program provides CAP Lung Cancer Medical Writers' Circle to the lung cancer community as a primary means of fulfilling our mission of enhancing the information available to people affected by lung cancer.

Disclaimer:

The information provided in the CAP Lung Cancer Medical Writers’ Circle is not medical advice and is not intended to replace or supersede any information your doctor may have given you.

All health care decisions should be made with your doctor. No changes in your health care treatment, management, or medications should be undertaken without first discussing the safety and probable outcomes of such changes with your doctor.