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    ES07 - Beyond the Diagnosis - Collaborative Care for Change (ID 775)

    • Event: WCLC 2018
    • Type: Educational Session
    • Track: Nursing and Allied Professionals
    • Presentations: 1
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    • Coordinates: 9/26/2018, 13:30 - 15:00, Room 205 BD
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      ES07.04 - Leveraging Social Media to Change the Public Conversation on Lung Cancer Stigma (ID 11381)

      14:10 - 14:30  |  Presenting Author(s): Lisa Carter-Harris

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    MA10 - Considerations in Immunotherapy / Real World (ID 911)

    • Event: WCLC 2018
    • Type: Mini Oral Abstract Session
    • Track: Advanced NSCLC
    • Presentations: 1
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    • Coordinates: 9/25/2018, 10:30 - 12:00, Room 105
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      MA10.10 - Lung Cancer Stigma: A Ten-Year View of Patient, Provider, and Public Attitudes About Lung Cancer. (ID 13413)

      11:35 - 11:40  |  Author(s): Lisa Carter-Harris

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      Background

      The presence of lung cancer stigma is well documented (Chapple, 2004; Chambers, 2012; Marlow, 2015) and impacts the care and treatment of lung cancer survivors (Tod, 2008; Carter-Harris, 2014). In 2008, a large survey of patients, oncologists, and general public revealed that most participants felt lung cancer was principally caused by external factors, was preventable, and lung cancer patients were partly to blame for their illness (Weiss 2014; 2017). We replicated the survey to understand whether perceptions have changed over the last decade.

      a9ded1e5ce5d75814730bb4caaf49419 Method

      1001 members of the general public, 208 lung cancer patients, and 205 oncologists who treat lung cancer were surveyed with the identical instrument as 2008 plus 3-11 questions at the end including Cataldo Lung Cancer Stigma Scale (Cataldo, 2011) strongest-loaded items for the patient survey. The survey was administered by phone and online during summer 2018.

      4c3880bb027f159e801041b1021e88e8 Result

      General lung cancer awareness has significantly improved in a decade with 94% of the public reporting familiarity with lung cancer, every segment reporting increased media visibility (65%, 78%, 85% for public, patients, and oncologists, respectively), and patients reporting significantly increased use of advocacy organizations (39% vs 18%, p<.05). Additionally, significantly more oncologists reported having adequate treatment options to prolong patients’ lives (52% vs 31%, p<.05) and most patients reported satisfaction with medical care (87%) and treatment options (71%).

      Despite these advances, stigma remains a critical problem. In 2018, significantly more of the public believed lung cancer patients are viewed/treated differently than other cancer patients (37% vs 31%, p<.05) and a similar proportion (56%) felt patients are partly to blame for their illness. Oncologists continue to believe there is stigma associated with lung cancer (68%) although more felt stigma was lower for never-smokers. More oncologists indicated patients blame themselves (67% vs 57%). Patients reported significant increases (p<.05) in presence of stigma associated with lung cancer (70% vs. 54%), lung cancer patients being treated differently by society (63% vs. 45%), having personally been treated different by society (43% vs 25%), and loved ones would be more supportive if they had a different type of cancer (25% vs. 11%).

      8eea62084ca7e541d918e823422bd82e Conclusion

      After a decade of lung cancer research progress, results indicate considerably elevated awareness. Unfortunately, disease stigma remains. Interestingly, stigma is reported more frequently by lung cancer patients and may be felt more acutely, perhaps due to increased awareness and empowerment. This work underscores the need to address stigma with proactive multilevel approaches (Hamann, 2018).

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