LUNGevity Communications on Lung Cancer and COVID-19

Lung Cancer Families,

We hope you and your families are doing well in this scary time... we want to share some resources we've created.

We've developed a dedicated COVID-19 section<http://www.lungevity.org/covid-19> of our website, which is continually being updated to include Q&As with experts<https://lungevity.org/for-patients-caregivers/covid-19-coronavirus/covid-19-faqs-for-people-with-lung-cancer> answering questions posed by our community,  video interviews<https://lungevity.org/for-patients-caregivers/covid-19-coronavirus/covid-19-and-lung-cancer-hear-from-experts> with members of the SAB and other medical experts, and a COVID-19 glossary<https://lungevity.org/for-patients-caregivers/covid-19-coronavirus/covid-19-glossary>.

Yesterday, we talked with Zosia Piotrowska, MD in the Thoracic Oncology Department at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, about questions that are most relevant to the lung cancer community regarding coronavirus COVID-19. Dr. Piotrowska's answers<https://lungevity.org/for-patients-caregivers/covid-19-coronavirus/covid-19-and-lung-cancer-hear-from-experts> fall into three categories: About Coronavirus COVID-19, COVID-19 and Lung Cancer, and Practical Advice.  Zoom Meeting video interviews were posted to the website and promoted through an eblast to patients and caregivers, as well as through social media posts. Our goal is to interview a variety of medical experts to address the many concerns of lung cancer patients - e.g., how to participate in a clinical trial during the pandemic; how to manage chemotherapy visits.

LUNGevity is also partnering with other lung cancer advocacy groups (GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer, Lung Cancer Foundation of America, Lung Cancer Research Foundation, and LungCAN) to bring important updates to our community on COVID-19.  We will continue to provide Joint Statements<https://lungevity.org/for-patients-caregivers/covid-19-coronavirus/updated-joint-statement-on-coronavirus-covid-19-from> with updates based on recommendations by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and what this means for our community.

Please let us know if there is anything we can be doing to address the needs of the lung cancer community, and please feel free to share our resources with your members.

And please stay safe!

Best regards,

Linda
Linda Wenger
Sr. VP, Marketing and Communications
LUNGevity Foundation
lwenger@LUNGevity.org<mailto:lwenger@LUNGevity.org>
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Our vision is a world where no one dies of lung cancer.