Jeffrey Poehlmann

I read an alarming headline posted by a legitimate cancer treatment center. It proclaimed that the blue light from tablets and smartphones causes cancer -- and there I was, lying...

Back in the seventies and eighties, I read a lot of horror literature. Often to the dismay of my parents, I insisted that it was valuable to read because the...

I have heard a few too many heartfelt and inspiring stories from dog and cat owners over the years. And I have watched an egregious number of online videos about...

I am called a "warrior" fairly often these days. I am not a warrior. People also call me "heroic," "strong," and even "brave" just for getting up in the morning...

Sometimes dealing with insurance and healthcare companies just feels ridiculous. Take the following example, a true story culled from my experience. Filling a new prescription for a steroid cream, I...

As a writer, I have been dealing with deadlines most of my life. Some have been arbitrary, some have been self-imposed, others have been more along the line of the...

I may be in the minority here, but I have serious reservations about the prospect of being declared NED. For years I have pondered the idea of my scans showing...

Every year seems to bring a shift in health expenses. Tax rules change -- sometimes dramatically -- and it is very difficult to keep up with the policies that affect...

Oh, Cancer, sometimes you're so funny. People seem to enjoy anthropomorphizing cancer and its effects. We hear terms like battling, fighting, surviving, as though cancer has an actual objective. We...

It is almost impossible to conceive of how a lung cancer diagnosis could not change a patient's worldview. After all, the ramifications of lung cancer touch every aspect of a...

There is a lot of chatter these days about metastatic lung cancer being treated as a chronic disease rather than a terminal one. Patients receiving a diagnosis may be less...

Lung cancer is a remarkably frightening diagnosis for most patients. It comes with a deep mythology of its own, fueled by stigma, and enhanced by devastating media portrayals from which...

When we think of lung cancer, we might well think about the big milestones we hit if we are fortunate enough to get there: the start of the first treatment...

Living with lung cancer makes a few things easier -- for instance, you have a permanent excuse for just about anything, and there are scheduling issues you simply cannot adjust...

Conspiracy theories about a cure for cancer have persisted for many years. Here are a few things to think about when asking the question, "why are they hiding the cure?"...

Participating in a clinical trial, I was gifted with a printout of what I might expect during the process. Included in this stack of papers were a few lists and...

If I had any moments of doubt about why I got cancer or what I should do to get rid of it, those answers should have been cleared up for...

Lung cancer is not quite unique in the way that people dance around what they are feeling in conversation, but it is a prime example of a topic in which...

I was fortunate enough in the 1970s to grow up in a smoke-free household. But not all my friends were so lucky, nor were so many people just one generation...

When I received my diagnosis of Stage IV Lung Cancer, my child was eight years old. My wife, who has professional experience with early childhood development, suggested that we tell...