Ask the Expert - April 19th, 2011
A new four-segment “ask-the-expert” video series, available online at BecomeAnEX.org, is devoted to helping smokers understand their risks for lung cancer. Legacy, through an unrestricted educational grant from Genentech, has developed a series of short “ask-the-expert” videos designed to educate current and former smokers who are in the process of lung cancer screenings. The videos are posted online at BecomeAnEX.org, a free interactive website to help smokers re-learn life without cigarettes.
The four-video series provides expert commentary and personal insight from a former smoker about CT scans as a means of earlier detection of lung cancer. Specifically, Dr. James Mulshine of Rush University Medical Center provides an overview of spiral CT scans and talks with a patient about the screening process. Another patient describes his firsthand experience of having a CT scan.
The video segments are supplemented by downloadable fact sheets that answer questions about the scan and promote conversations that smokers should have with their clinicians about accessing spiral CT scans. Another supportive element is a new online discussion group, Cancer Survivors Supporting Each Other to Quit Smoking, which provides a place to share stories and support one another in quit smoking efforts. To join this group, visit BecomeAnEX.org and click on The EX Community.
