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Have you ever met that person who enters a room and is instantly likable? Someone who has a positive comment to make about everything she sees? Think of the type...

This is Part II of the article series, Meet Nicole, taken from a March 2018 interview with Nicole McNair of Greensboro, NC. Dusty:How did they tell you that you had...

For all my complaining about living in Los Angeles, I have to acknowledge how fortunate I am to be here. As with many things in life, since being diagnosed with...

I attended a LUNGevity Lunch and Learn meeting yesterday. During the Survivor Stories session, a man I will call Jack began telling his story. He was diagnosed with advanced small...

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.  --Charlie Chaplin I recently listened to a Webinar put on by the Texas Oncology Foundation that was called Survivorship: Your...

On a recent visit to my oncologist, we got to talking about some of the issues I was currently dealing with. The treatment I had been on was particularly low...

A good friend of mine asked me a little while ago if I think about the fact that I have lung cancer every day. I had to stop for a...

Physical health and mental health are inextricably linked. People living with lung cancer not only have to manage their physical symptoms, but also cope with the negative impact their physical...

I went to lunch with some friends who haven't seen me in several years. In fact, I probably haven't seen some of them in four or even five years. We...

Fighting lung cancer is nearly a full-time job. The time is long since past that we as patients should sit back and just turn over our health to our doctors...

February 20th of 2014 and the worst day of my life. It was the day I heard the words directed to me, "I am sorry but you have lung cancer." Anyone reading...

I am often asked what are the stages of lung cancer and how does your medical team come to the conclusion of your staging. There are MANY tests to help determine...

I have two dogs. One white. One black. One female. One male. As different from one another as night and day. But, I consider them both lifesavers. When I was...

In early June, I attended the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) as a Patient Advocate. Held every year in Chicago, ASCO draws close to 40,000...

I recently saw a question raised by a lung cancer survivor who was experiencing difficulty breathing after radiation treatments. She wanted to know what tips we had that could help...

There is a couple I know where the wife is so fed up about losing her sense of identity, losing her sense of joy, and, perhaps most importantly, constantly living...

NED, or No Evidence of Disease. Aren't those the most wonderful words you have ever seen? It doesn't really matter where your cancer is or where it came from because...

In addition to the obvious challenges facing those of us diagnosed with lung cancer, there’s another challenge that many of us are quite simply unprepared for: understanding science. I want...

After four chemotherapy infusions, I was feeling pretty good. My energy level and feeling of well-being were on the rise. CT scans showed that my lung cancer was shrinking as...

Do you have chemo brain? It's a real thing. I know for a long time, doctors, especially, scoffed at the idea, but they now recognize its reality. The general public...