Resurrecting my Twitter account to advertise the TOGA 2024 annual scientific meeting. 3 international speakers, multidisciplinary updates, catching up with peers. Don’t forget to register! thoraciconcology.org.au/education/asm-…

New ASCO Guideline on Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.12…

1. Early referral to SPECIALIZED PC leads to improved QOL, mood, higher likelihood of documenting EOL preferences
2. PC teams are fundamentally interdisciplinary
3. PC benefits caregivers

MARS 2 - more than 7 years of work, 26 hospitals, expert mesothelioma centres and surgeons in the UK with over 264 patients deaths just published (online first), open access, free to all to read:
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

HERE'S YOUR SIGN...

to listen to the new episode on 'Lung cancer nurses - champions for better patient care' on your walk, run, or drive.

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Not one, not 2, but 3 lung cancer plenaries at #ASCO24 ! Early telemed pall care, the LAURA trial of consolidation osimertinib after CRT for stage 3 EGFR non small cell lung cancer & the ADRIATIC trial of consolidation immunotherapy after CRT for small cell lung cancer! #lcsm

Pooled 5-yr outcomes of Pembro+Chemo for PDL1<1% metastatic NSCLC JTO & JTO CRR:

- 442pts (KN189, KN407 &China/Japan extensions)
- mOS 0.64, mPFS HR 0.66, 5yr OS 12.5 v 9.3% favors chemo-IO
- g3+ TRAEs 59.1% chemo-IO

IASLC OncoAlert Shirish Gadgeel
#LCSM
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Lung cancer in never-smokers represent the 5thleading cause of cancer-related mortality in the world. They are highly enriched for targetable oncogenic alterations, have low TMB, low rates of PD-L1 positivity, & lack mutational signatures. They occur almost exclusively as

Happy to share our team's paper: 'Attitudes towards #COVID -19 #vaccination in adults with #haematological malignancies'.

🥳𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘀 A/Prof Nada Hamad Lisa Grech Tammie ST Choi Cecily Forsyth Stephen Opat Bryan Chan
Daphne Day Prof. Eva Segelov

doi.org/10.1159/000536…

Join or renew your COSA membership before 30 April 2024 to get bonus months of membership and a saving! bit.ly/3hXsDLm

We also congratulate Thoracic Oncology Group of Australasia member A/Prof Zarnie Lwin on her OAM in the general division for service to medicine in the field of neuro oncology. 👏👏

#Lungcancer is the top cancer killer, yet receives the least amount of federal research funding... #LCAM23 #IASLC

Late post of photos from last night - COSA’s 50th 🎂 birthday party 🥳 #COSA23

Many thanks Bogda Koczwara 🌻🌻🌻 for closing #COSA23 and for the thought provoking Presidential Lecture

Access to Oncology Medicines session at #COSA23 highlighting the inequality of access to cancer medicines to low and middle income countries 🌎

Today marks the start of #LungCancerAwarenessMonth - let’s work together to beat our number one cause of cancer mortality lungfoundation.com.au/events/lung-ca… Lung Foundation Australia #LCSM

Thanks for the update on the LUCAP quality indicators Shalini Vinod at #COSA23

Thanks Dr Prue Cormie for your talk on “exercise conversations” at #COSA23 and what clinicians want to use for the chat

Catch-ups galore at #COSA23 Professor Ray Chan Cassandra

Catching up with friends at #COSA23

One week to go! Come join us at COSA, so many fantastic presentations! COSA Bryan Chan Dr Penny Mackenzie Dr Tamara Butler Shoni Philpot

#COSA 23 #cancer #Queenland #COSA