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Ins and Outs of EGFR+ Lung Cancer

Why We Need to Tell Our Stories of Living with Lung Cancer

Often, when I tell a new acquaintance that I am living with lung cancer, I am met with disbelief. I am asked: YOU have lung cancer? Not enough of the...

Must Know Information for Newly Diagnosed Lung Cancer Patients

When I was first diagnosed, understanding the terminology was like learning a foreign language. Bronchoscopy. Fine Needle Aspiration. Pulmonologist. PET scan. CAT scan. VATS. Mutation. ALK Positive. EGFR. RET. MET...

Growing Mental Toughness

As soon as I heard the words "you have a stage IV lung cancer" my mind went crazy and my body felt I got knocked down. I was there but...

Accelerating Research for EGFR-Positive Lung Cancer

As many of you know, I co-founded the patient group the EGFR Resisters in 2017 to improve outcomes for EGFR-positive lung cancer through support, education, and accelerating research. I’d like...

Finding the Right Care Team

Having the right care team is important after a lung cancer diagnosis. I barely knew what an oncologist was before I had cancer let alone know which one was the...

My Experience with Liquid Biopsies

After I was finished with the first clinical trial I participated in, my oncologist started me on an experimental drug that was for a different type of cancer. It worked...