Living

Cancer treatment is no laughing matter. To be frank, it sucks. Patients hate it. Caregivers hate it. There is no way to sugarcoat how difficult it is to go through...

There is not a single person who has been diagnosed with lung cancer or that has a loved one fighting the disease who is not well aware of the stigma...

If someone had told me when I was first diagnosed back in 2013 that I would be helping to drive lung cancer research, I would not have believed them. But...

I just saw that a new series is being developed called "Experts by Experience." I just love that title. It is especially meaningful to me today because of a recent...

Right out of the starting gate, I found that some friends downplayed my lung cancer diagnosis practically to the point of denying it had occurred at all. Some relatives tried...

Sometimes it may be hard for a lung cancer patient to smile. Treatment takes a toll, both physically and emotionally. My mood has fluctuated from dark to darker on many...

We are deeply saddened to share that contributor and member of the LungCancer.net team, Nicole Russell, passed away on February 16th, at the age of 37. Nicole was a loving...

When we are diagnosed with lung cancer, or any cancer for that matter, a lot of serious questions bombard our brains. Am I going to die? Why did this happen...

Clinical trials. Are you a candidate? Are you interested in being in a trial? Let me just start off by saying, I am a huge fan of participating in clinical...

Last week, I went to a checkup appointment for my 85 year old mother and ended up discussing lung cancer with her primary care doctor. When I told him I...

Worry. It seems to be an emotion that afflicts so many of us. My mother could worry with the best of them. I used to tell her that if she...

Just as a blind person has a service dog, lung cancer patients can have support dogs or other support animals. Yes, you can, really! An emotional support animal can have a...

One of the first terms that a new cancer patient often becomes used to hearing is "risk vs reward." This refers, of course, to the risk of side-effects versus the...

I don't know about you, but I try to keep up with what's going on in the research world. The problem is that I don't always understand a lot of...

"Mom, you never traveled. You're traveling more now with 2 cancers than you ever did." YES!!!! That is the truth.  And do you want to know why? - Because more of...

Read part 1 of Jeffrey's article here. Lying down on the hard metal bench was its own special form of torture. The metastasis of my lung cancer that had grown...

I walk hunched over, lurching forward with a pronounced limp in my left leg. For the past two months, the pain shooting down through my sciatic nerve on my left...

I had coffee recently with a close friend of mine and during our nearly three hour conversation that covered topics ranging from our kids to husbands to vacation plans to...

So, I had just surpassed my 5 year cancerversary and was celebrating my daughter's 13th birthday. Thirteen! A teenager. I never thought I would live to see the day. We...

A cancer diagnosis brings with it a lot of stress. If we let it, the fear and worry can take a very real toll on our health, just when we...