I am honored that I was asked to be the featured guest for the #CureChat on Twitter this Thursday, January 12th, 2017 at 1 pm ET.  We’ll be talking about precision medicine and clinical trials.  You can read more about it on the Cure Forward blog.  Hope you can join us!

Chat Topics (from the Cure Forward blog):

T1. Janet Freeman-Daily’s Story (my lung cancer story, told 140 characters at a time)

T2. What does the term “precision medicine” mean to you and how does it connect to clinical trials?

T3. Tell us about the ROS1 Mutation.

T4. What were your biggest fears and misconceptions about clinical trials before finding out about them via an online community?

T5. How did it feel to be accepted into a trial? What emotions, and why? And how did you manage them?

T6. What are some of the positive aspects of clinical trials that most people don’t know about?

T7. Please share some online resources where you find trustworthy info for lung cancer and clinical trials.

You can follow the conversation in Twitter by entering “#CureChat” in the search box to filter tweets.  However, if you haven’t joined a tweetchat before, you may find the conversation easier to follow if you use a tool designed for tweetchats, such as tchat.io.  To use tchat.io, do the following:

• Login to Twitter (you must have a Twitter account to do this)
• Type “tchat.io” in the URL of your browser, then hit the “enter” key. The tchat.io entry page will appear.
• Type “#CureChat” in the box that says “enter hashtag,” then left-click on the colored box that says “Start Chatting.” You will be taken to a page that has a big blank textbox at the top, and a list of recent tweets that contain the hashtag “#CureChat” below.
• Left-click on the link just below the textbox that says “sign in.” A popup window will ask if you want to authorize tchat.io to access to your Twitter account. Left-click on the box that says “authorize app.” You will return to the tchat.io page.
• Left-click on the link above the textbox that says “hide retweets.” This will eliminate duplicate tweets and make the conversation easier to follow.

Now you can follow the #CureChat conversation on the tchat.io page.  If you want to contribute to the conversation, type your own tweets into the textbox at the top of the page.  Tchat.io will automatically add the hashtag #CureChat to the end of your tweet so your tweet will appear in the conversation.

However you choose to follow the chat, if you want to respond or direct a question to someone in the chat, be sure to include their Twitter handle (e.g., @JFreemanDaily is my handle) at the beginning of your tweet.

Thanks to Liza Bernstein (@itsthebunk) and the Cure Forward team for inviting me to be their guest in this chat.  I look forward to seeing you on Thursday!  I will post the link to the Storify summary of the chat HERE once the Cure Forward team posts it.