Raise Awareness | Saving Lungs Behind the Chair
Learn how to save lungs
Saving Lungs Behind the Chair is about changing lung cancer survivorship. Knowing the importance of lung cancer screening, getting biomarker testing when diagnosed, and the benefits of clinical trials are the ways we can change a lung diagnosis into a #livingwithlung cancer story.
Check with Your Doctor About Getting Screened
Recently diagnosed? What To Ask Your Doctor
Clinical Trials: Tomorrow’s Medicines Today
Unfortunately, Black Americans are later to be diagnosed, their cancer more advanced, and their outcomes worse. Changing this trend happens by getting a CT scan. This test may be covered by your insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid.
What Does Getting A CT scan look like?
A low-dose CT scan is a quick, painless, and non-invasive approach to screen for lung cancer.
Using no dyes, no injections, and requiring nothing to swallow by mouth, the actual scan itself takes less than a minute to complete. From start to finish, the entire appointment takes approximately 30 minutes.
This means do you have small cell lung cancer? Or non-small cell lung cancer?
Watch this short video to learn more:
Some cancer treatments, including targeted therapies and immunotherapies, may only work for people whose cancers have certain biomarkers.
Why Biomarkers Matter
Learn why Dr. Osarogiagbon is excited about biomarkers and the future of lung cancer treatment in this 1-minute video.
Biomarker Testing is Changing the Numbers
Learn from lung cancer patient and physician Sydney Barned about what biomarkers are and how knowing her biomarker led to a treatment that is taking a daily pill.
Join the Fight with Style!
Help spread vital lung cancer awareness with your salon flair. Be a part of #SavingLungsBehindTheChair – where your styling skills combat lung cancer.
And possibly win an iPad to take your Hair-apist skills to the next level. To enter your name into the drawing, join LCFA’s Hair-apist Community to get all the details.
