NCI Social Media Events - National Cancer Institute

NCI Social Media Events - National Cancer Institute

NCI Social Media Events

A large part of the mission of the National Cancer Institute is to share information and updates with the public and cancer research community. Social media is an ideal platform for connecting with people, and we often participate in live social media events like Twitter chats. Listed below are past and upcoming social media events involving NCI and our partners.

If you are interested in more information about NCI and our events, please follow us on our social media channels.

Live-Tweeting Event During the Cancer Documentary, Emperor of All Maladies

Join the National Cancer Institute (@theNCI ) and our partners below for a groundbreaking, live-tweeting social media event that will take place during all three nights of the documentary Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies .  Emperor is a three-part, six-hour major television event on PBS presented by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, in partnership with WETA , based on the 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Siddhartha Mukherjee. It will air:

• Monday, March 30, 9:00-11:00 PM ET (check your local PBS listings )
• Tuesday, March 31, 9:00-11:00 PM ET (check your local PBS listings )
• Wednesday, April 1, 9:00-11:00 PM ET  (check your local PBS listings )

While the documentary is airing, the National Cancer Institute and others below will be live-tweeting cancer-related topics mentioned during the documentary – in the moment in which they are mentioned.  Follow the #CancerFilm  hashtag on Twitter and you’ll see, for example, that when chemotherapy is mentioned, you’ll see a wealth of information about it from several expert institutions tagged with the #CancerFilm  hashtag - during all three nights of the documentary.

Participating institutions and their Twitter handles include:

• Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania , @PennMedNews 
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute , @DanaFarber 
• David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT , @kochinstitute 
• Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute , The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, @gregoryjaune 
• Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University , @OHSUKnight 
• LUNGevity , @LUNGevity 
• The National Institutes of Health, @NIH 
• NCI's Spanish-language website site, @NCIespanol 
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center , @sloan_kettering 
• Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins , @HopkinsMedicine 
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, @SmokefreeUS 
• UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center , @ucsfcancer 
• University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center , @UCCancerCenter 
• University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center , @UMCancerCenter 
• The V Foundation for Cancer Research , @TheVFoundation 

Twitter Chat on Immunotherapy
April 2, 2015, 1:00 – 2:00 ET
Hashtag: #CancerFilm 

Following up on our three nights of live-tweeting information about the history and present of cancer research and treatment, join the National Cancer Institute  and the experts below for an hour-long discussion of the future of cancer research and treatment and what the journal Science designated as its “Breakthrough of the Year” in 2013.  Immunotherapy is using the immune system’s natural capacity to detect and destroy abnormal cells may prevent the development of many cancers.  In just the past few years, the rapidly advancing field of cancer immunology has produced several new methods of treating cancer that increase the strength of immune responses against tumors.

Immunotherapy experts from the cancer treatment institutions below will be part of this exciting and informative chat:

Institutions participating:

• Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania , @PennCancer 
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute , @DanaFarber 
• Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University , @OHSUNews 
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center , @sloan_kettering 
• Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins , @HopkinsMedicine 

Individuals participating:

• Lawerence Fong, MD , Genitourinary cancer specialist, CSF Medical Center and associate profressor of medicine
  University of California, San Francisco
• Dr. James L. Gulley, M.D., Ph.D.
  Head, Immunotherapy Section
  Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute
• Dr. Jason Luke, MD , Assistant Professor of Medicine
  University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Beth Mittendorf, M.D. , Associate Professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology
  University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Dr. Benjamin Neel,  MD, PhD, the Director of the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone
• Sapna Patel , M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology
  The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Phillip Sharp, Ph.D. 
  Institute Professor, MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
  Chairperson, Stand Up To Cancer Scientific Advisory Committee

Previous Twitter Chats

World Cancer Day Twitter Chat
February 4, 2015
Dr. Lee Helman  of the National Cancer Institute and representing Stand Up to Cancer , participated in a Twitter chat commemorating World Cancer Day, hashtag #FightWorldCancer. These are NCI's tweets, along with select contributions from other chat participants .

Twitter Chat on Latinas and Cervical Cancer
January 20, 2015
Dr. Sarah Temkin, Medical Officer in the Community Oncology and Prevention Trials Research Group at the National Cancer Institute participated in a chat about cervical cancer in the Latina community, hashtag #SaludTues. These are the NCI's tweets along with those of other participants, archived in Twitter .

Twitter Chat on Non-Communicable Diseases and Global Health
January 14, 2015
Dr. Edward Trimble, Director, Center for Global Health at the National Cancer Institute interviewed NCI's new Non-Communicable Diseases Coordinator, Dr. John Flanigan, hashtag #NCDs, in a special Twitter Q&A. They discussed the rising global health burden of NCDs and possible strategies to address the issue. These are NCI’s tweets, along with those from others, archived on Twitter. 

Twitter Chat on Precision Medicine in Lung Cancer
November 5, 2014
Dr. Shakun Malik, Head, Thoracic Cancer Therapeutics in the Clinical Investigations Branch of the Cancer Therapy Evaluation program at the National Cancer Institute participated in a Twitter chat about precision medicine in lung cancer, hashtag #LCSM. These are NCI's tweets, along with select contributions from other participants .

Twitter Chat on Childhood Obesity
September 9, 2014
Dr. April Oh, PhD, MPH, Program Director of the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch (HCIRB), Behavioral Research Program (BRP), of the National Cancer Institute participated in a sun safety Twitter chat, hashtag #ChildhoodObesityChat. These are NCI's tweets, along with select contributions from other participants .

Twitter Chat on Cancer Pain Management
September 3, 2014
On September 3, 2014, Dr. Ann O'Mara of the National Cancer Institute led a Twitter chat about cancer pain management, hashtag #CancerPain. These are NCI's tweets, along with select contributions from other participants .

Twitter Chat on Sun Safety
June 19, 2014
Dr. Frank Perna, Program Director, Health Behaviors Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program, of the National Cancer Institute participated in a sun safety Twitter chat, hashtag #SunHealth. These are NCI's tweets, along with select contributions from other participants .

Twitter Chat on Immunotherapy
June 18, 2014
Dr. Steven Rosenberg, Head, Tumor Immunology Section, Branch Chief of the National Cancer Institute participated in an immunotherapy Twitter chat, hashtag #CIMChat. These are NCI's tweets, along with select contributions from other participants .

• Updated: March 30, 2015