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From the day of diagnosis, I have been dealing with my own lung cancer changes. I cannot ignore that I am also grappling with my own finitude as well as...

I was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2014. I did not have a lot of experience with lung cancer or even cancer in general. I had always heard of the...

Over the course of the past year, most of us have been forced to only communicate by some sort of electronic device. We had birthday celebrations over Facetime while drop...

Ever since I was diagnosed so unexpectedly with lung cancer, I’ve found that not much shocks me or truly surprises me anymore. I think once I heard the words “you...

What has prolonged my life after having advanced stage 4 non-small cell ALK-positive lung cancer? Do I only owe it to my cancer doctors? How about research? Much more to...

As I was moderating the comments on the Facebook page for LungCancer.net I found a topic that comes up a lot. People ask questions about care, treatment, and simply “what...

When I was first diagnosed, I kept hearing buzz words like “chemo brain” and brain fog, but I didn’t really think anything about it until I experienced it. My husband...

When receiving the news of lung cancer; it is imperative to move swiftly. My mother spent weeks in the hospital with what was assumed to be pneumonia, only to find...

I have mentioned many times that my diagnosis was devastating news to me and I know that is a common feeling in others who have been diagnosed. (We see this...

One of my fellow contributors wrote an article several months back about the launching of the White Ribbon Project by Heidi and Pierre Onda to foster increased lung cancer awareness...

I’m an advanced lung cancer survivor for six years. For the first three years, I struggled with lung cancer, physical side effects, and mental effects. I wrote several articles about...

As lung cancer survivors it is important for us to exercise. I recently wrote an article for lungcancer.net on different ways to exercise at home and one of the topics...

You may not be familiar with the term healthcare utilization management but chances are, it plays an important role in decisions about your healthcare. According to the NCI, healthcare utilization...

My name is Ashley and I am deeply depressed. There! I said it. Saying this for the first time out loud to my husband was pretty surreal. It felt so...

When I was diagnosed with lung cancer it felt like time stopped and froze. I was 30 years old and just told that I had stage 3b lung cancer. Waiting...

The Beyond the Cancer Diagnosis Survey is now closed. Thank you for your interest! Receiving a cancer diagnosis can change life as you know it. While some treatments and side...

I have always stayed busy by working and when I was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer I found that I could not work as much as I wanted to...

Let's face it! We are all busy and when we aren't busy, we are tired. Sometimes the last thing we want to do is cook. It's the cooking and then...

I have heard that people love to sing, even if they can't sing melodiously. It's believed that singing is good for self-care, and as a matter of fact, there's solid...

In 2017, I went to the U.S capitol to “storm the hill”. Lung cancer alliance (now combined with the Bonnie Addario Foundation and called Go2 Foundation) hosted the event. I...