Living

The other night, it's 3:00 am and I'm awake - FINALLY!! Opdivo really knocked me on my butt this time. Friday and Saturday, I felt great (well, not great, but you...

Our lung cancer community is full of loss. Sometimes it can be overwhelming and you have to pull yourself away from it all. Too many people are being snuffed out...

Do you think I am going to write about the side effects of chemotherapy, radiation, and immunotherapy? Nope. This has nothing to do with that. This has to do with all the...

There have been a lot of changes in lung cancer since I was diagnosed in 2013. When I had biomarker testing on my biopsy tissue, EGFR, ALK, and KRAS were...

"We’ll see you in three months." What? But I’ve been seeing you every week, sometimes 3-5 days a week for months! What do you mean three months? What am I...

For most of us, a lung cancer diagnosis is synonymous with stress. Even if we never worried a day in our lives before we were diagnosed, chances are good that...

I wanted to create a living self-portraits series about lung cancer patients and caregivers. These portraits are about our feelings, our journey, especially how we got to this point. I...

At the end of February, I was invited to attend the Inaugural Patient Advocate Workshop for Lung Cancer Foundation of America (LCFA) in Marina Del Rey, California. For its Inaugural...

The past few months have been rough. I received the call recently that my aunt had finally passed away from stage 4 Leukemia. I found it odd that her husband...

Learning you have cancer is one of the biggest shocks you will experience in your life. And, while you are still reeling from the news, you are often being bombarded...

I’m not a social person but it doesn’t bother me. When I was diagnosed with lung cancer, I became even more isolated. One reason is that I didn’t know how...

I remember when I first started chemotherapy treatments six years ago. Like every other new cancer patient, I had no idea what to expect. I assumed I would react as...

I always thought I was lucky that my life was so smooth. For example, I had a happy childhood with two loving parents, a highly competitive yet rewarding career, and...

Going through chemotherapy (chemo) is exhausting, emotionally and physically - there’s no way around it. When you get started, you’ll likely have many questions surrounding your chemo, like: One question...

I currently weigh more than I have ever weighed in my life, including while pregnant with my two sons! Ugh!!! As someone living with stage IV lung cancer for over five...

Do I sound naive? Do I sound like I am in denial? Well, I can assure you, I am not. I know this disease is not going away. My treatments keep...

Being a parent is already a tiring job and then add in life with lung cancer. Both together can be a recipe for complete exhaustion and feelings of defeat. Fatigue...

Time can be a strange thing. When you're waiting on something good or exciting to happen, it can feel as though time slowly drags on. But, when you want that...

I have been on Opdivo for over three years and have had wonderful results from it. Every three months when I have my scans, the tumors are always ever so slightly...

Every year, the Lung Cancer Acton Network (LungCAN) updates its lung cancer statistics and shares the updates with member organizations. We do this so that all the lung cancer advocacy...