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Mini-history lesson to follow up on tonight's #bcsm (breast cancer social media) chat: 1/
#bcsm was started by @stales and @jodyms 7/4/2011. They modeled the chats after @danamlewis #hcsm chats which ran for 10 years 2/
Since 7/4/2011, the #bcsm hashtag has been used 830K times by 75K users not only during scheduled weekly chats, but 24/7 to tag information of relevance to anyone impacted by breast cancer https://institutionalrepository.aah.org/jpcrr/vol7/iss4/3/ 4/
In 2013, @LizSzabo profiled #bcsm in @USATODAY https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/10/23/breast-cancer-group-support/1637633/ 5/
In 2015, we showed that chat participation resulted in increased knowledge and reduced anxiety. 30% of participants brought new info to their doc or got a 2nd opinion based on what they learned. And 72% were inspired to pursue advocacy 6/ @jmirpub https://www.jmir.org/2015/7/e188/ #bcsm
In 2016, we tapped into the wisdom of #bcsm to learn how patients prefer to receive test results: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27306904/ @AnnSurgOncol 7/
Recently, we learned about the patient experience with endocrine therapy #bcsm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7430212/ @jcansurv 8/
@Medscape called #bcsm an 'Invaluable Tool' for the breast cancer community https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/939858 9/
and next week, @MatthewZachary and @OffScripMedia will feature #bcsm in their podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bcsm/id1537475590 10/
