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It comes every year. But what is Lung Cancer Awareness Month about? To me, Lung Cancer Awareness Month is a reason to pause and recognize the advances that have been...

LungCancer.net shares the stories and experiences of people living with lung cancer. We are highlighting the story of our advocate Ivy who learned about her stage IV lung cancer in...

After a surprising and shocking lung cancer diagnosis, Jessi was unsure what would come next. Her family and community stood by her through treatment unknowns and difficult decisions. Jessi’s Journey...

LungCancer.net shares the stories and experiences of people living with lung cancer. We are highlighting the story of our advocate Angie who received her stage IV lung cancer diagnosis after...

Fatigue: It’s not “just being tired”, and it’s an experience that individuals living with a chronic health condition know all too well. Fatigue can impact every aspect of daily life...

By now, my family and I have been seriously socially distancing since mid-March. While I see others on Facebook taking vacations, eating in outdoor restaurants with groups of people, taking...

If you have lung cancer and are having trouble sleeping, know that you are not alone. The inability to get a good night’s sleep is incredibly common for people living...

When I was first diagnosed with lung cancer, many friends and family members told me to “stay positive.” As someone who just found out she had stage IV lung cancer...

Spouses will leave, boyfriends may flee, but your friends will hold you together when you think you can no longer do it. As of now, I'm blessed to have both...

I'm not a smoker. Also my relatives, far or close, are not smokers either. So, from the day I got lung cancer, I felt that smoking is not my problem...

This study is closed and no longer recruiting. Arizona State University is seeking sleep-disturbed cancer patients to participate in a research study. The purpose of the research is to determine...

Each year, World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is observed in October. This year, October 10 will mark the day to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the...

Dusty shares reflections and reactions from lung cancer advocates who attended their first scientific conference on lung cancer targeted therapies. Read the first part of this series in Advocates Engage...

I've been quiet on here for some time now. Hopefully, I'm back for good. Yes, everyone is talking about the pandemic so much that I have simply stopped watching the...

When you are diagnosed with lung cancer, it can feel like you have been thrown into a new world of confusing terms and big decisions to make quickly. There are...

Since I was in lung cancer land, what I most often heard is "clinical trials save lives." Indeed, clinical trials are critical and inevitable to have the drugs proved by...

Lung cancer advocates are becoming more informed about and engaged with the research community. Several advocates were first-time attendees at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer’s Targeted...

In early spring, Dusty attended the Targeted Therapies in Lung Cancer Conference in Santa Monica, California, with several colleagues and fellow advocates. Read her takeaways in Understanding Targeted Therapies in...

When I was first diagnosed with lung cancer and the doctor was awaiting my report from my additional molecular testing, I was overwhelmed at all the different avenues that my...

Last night my friend Jessica and I were talking about my cancer. She couldn't understand how I was handling things so well. I told her the story my oncologist told me. When I...