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*Abstract submitters are strongly encouraged to use person-first language in their abstracts.

===[https://www.ilcn.org/the-iaslc-language-guide-a-lexicon-of-healing-for-lung-cancer-and-beyond/ International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer - The IASLC Language Guide: A Lexicon of Healing for Lung Cancer and Beyond]===

===[https://www.ilcn.org/the-iaslc-language-guide-a-lexicon-of-healing-for-lung-cancer-and-beyond/ International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer - The IASLC Language Guide: A Lexicon of Healing for Lung Cancer and Beyond 2021]===

*The Guide is not long, dense, or difficult to understand. It encourages everyone to “take conscious steps to be thoughtful in the language we use,” and boils down to four simple, subtle principles:

**Use Person-First Language: For example, instead of “lung cancer patient,” use “patient/person with lung cancer.”

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**Equity: Follow best practices regarding race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic, and geographic descriptions to promote cultural humility and sensitivity.

*“We came together from different places, with different methods and different training, but we all agree that words matter, and that it is possible to change the language we use to talk to and about persons with lung cancer, as well as about people who use tobacco,” Dr. Ostroff said. “And we can do that in a way that that conveys respect, inclusivity, and equity.”

**'''Follow-up on new policy''': 2024: Preprint: [https://www.jtocrr.org/article/S2666-3643(24)00081-X/pdf Brief Report: Precision Language and Deletion of the “S” Word 2022]

**"In 2021 the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) published the IASLC Language Guide as guidance on preferred language and phrasing in oral and written communications, including presentations at conferences. This study analyzed presentations from the 2022 IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) one year after implementation of the Language Guide to identify adoption rates of non-stigmatizing language and to determine correlations with presenter characteristics."

**We searched each presentation, including images, for discussion of tobacco use, and the use of the term “smoker,” which is an indicator of stigmatizing language.

**Of 177 presentations that discussed smoking status 77 presenters used non-stigmatizing language while 100 presenters used the stigmatizing term "smoker". Male MDs and female PhDs and non-medicine subspecialties and advocates were more likely to use non-stigmatizing language.

**Encouragingly, only after one year post release of the Language Guide, greater than one-third of the presenters at the WCLC used non-stigmatizing language. This finding represents a step towards improving respectful and inclusive language surrounding smoking within the thoracic oncology community.

===[https://media.nutrition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/N23-Abstract-Presentation-Guidelines.pdf NUTRITION 2023]===

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 *Abstract submitters are strongly encouraged to use person-first language in their abstracts.
-===[https://www.ilcn.org/the-iaslc-language-guide-a-lexicon-of-healing-for-lung-cancer-and-beyond/ International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer - The IASLC Language Guide: A Lexicon of Healing for Lung Cancer and Beyond]===
+===[https://www.ilcn.org/the-iaslc-language-guide-a-lexicon-of-healing-for-lung-cancer-and-beyond/ International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer - The IASLC Language Guide: A Lexicon of Healing for Lung Cancer and Beyond 2021]===
 *The Guide is not long, dense, or difficult to understand. It encourages everyone to “take conscious steps to be thoughtful in the language we use,” and boils down to four simple, subtle principles:
 **Use Person-First Language: For example, instead of “lung cancer patient,” use “patient/person with lung cancer.”
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 **Equity: Follow best practices regarding race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic, and geographic descriptions to promote cultural humility and sensitivity.
 *“We came together from different places, with different methods and different training, but we all agree that words matter, and that it is possible to change the language we use to talk to and about persons with lung cancer, as well as about people who use tobacco,” Dr. Ostroff said. “And we can do that in a way that that conveys respect, inclusivity, and equity.”
+**'''Follow-up on new policy''': 2024: Preprint: [https://www.jtocrr.org/article/S2666-3643(24)00081-X/pdf Brief Report: Precision Language and Deletion of the “S” Word 2022]
+**"In 2021 the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) published the IASLC Language Guide as guidance on preferred language and phrasing in oral and written communications, including presentations at conferences. This study analyzed presentations from the 2022 IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) one year after implementation of the Language Guide to identify adoption rates of non-stigmatizing language and to determine correlations with presenter characteristics."
+**We searched each presentation, including images, for discussion of tobacco use, and the use of the term “smoker,” which is an indicator of stigmatizing language.
+**Of 177 presentations that discussed smoking status 77 presenters used non-stigmatizing language while 100 presenters used the stigmatizing term "smoker". Male MDs and female PhDs and non-medicine subspecialties and advocates were more likely to use non-stigmatizing language.
+**Encouragingly, only after one year post release of the Language Guide, greater than one-third of the presenters at the WCLC used non-stigmatizing language. This finding represents a step towards improving respectful and inclusive language surrounding smoking within the thoracic oncology community.
 ===[https://media.nutrition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/N23-Abstract-Presentation-Guidelines.pdf NUTRITION 2023]===