Practical help for managing lung cancer?...Hi, I wish to learn how do professionals and people handle lung cancer patients in their final days? I'm a carer for my mum who has had embolization etc, but...Reactions0reactionsComments2 repliesCaregivingEnd of Life Care
Advocate for my mom...Hi everyone. I am very new to this and I don't really know where to begin. I am 22 years old, I just got married a few weeks ago. Now...Reactions0reactionsComments4 repliesCaregivingTips & Advice
Does Advice to "Stay Positive" Help?...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...Reactions0reactionsComments6 comments
Androgen deprivation?...My Oncologist told me I have or need androgen deprivation - I think this was discovered on the biopsy report, anyone know something about this? -Lanny...Reactions0reactionsComments3 repliesBiopsies
The Importance Of Friends During 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...Reactions0reactionsComments1 comments
The Stigma of Lung Cancer Hurts Everybody!...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...Reactions0reactionsComments2 comments
CLOSED Disturbed Sleep Research Opportunity...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...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
“Potentiating Medications”...Hello, My mother was recently diagnosed with adenocarcinoma EGFR mutant, Exon 19 deletion, TP53, MYC. One primary tumor in the lung, one brain mets 1.2cm and two lymph nodes in...Reactions0reactionsComments2 repliesTreatmentSide Effects
World Hospice & Palliative Care Day 2020: Voices from the Community...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...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
Trouble Sleeping?...Arizona State University is seeking sleep-disturbed cancer patients to participate in a research study. If you are interested in learning more about or joining this study, click the button below...Reactions0reactionsComments3 repliesSleep
Advocates Engage, Learn at Scientific Conference (Part 2)...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...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
It's A Very Mad World...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...Reactions0reactionsComments4 comments
Lung Cancer: How Informed Are We?...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...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
What Is Really Involved In Clinical Trials?...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...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
Advocates Engage, Learn at Scientific Conference...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...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
Rhonda Meckstroth...In October of 2015, Rhonda Meckstroth’s husband Jeff was diagnosed at age 58 with non- small cell adenocarcinoma stage IV lung cancer with an ALK mutation. Living in a small...
Five and Going on Six...Years that is. Am still swimming. And dealing with a couple of other issues, too, like MS and IBS. So I have a hard time concentrating on any one thing...Reactions0reactionsComments1 comments
What Would You Do?...13 years survivor of Stage 3 Endometrial Cancer. Just got diagnosed with Stage 3 T4 lung cancer in left upper lobe. The tumor is large and impinging on aortic artery...Reactions0reactionsComments4 comments
Kick in the Gut...October 2020 would mark 13 years cancer free from Stage III recurrent Endometrial Cancer. Finally felt safe and moved 6.5 hours from the hospital that saved my life, to a...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
3rd Time...Hi Everybody I was diagnosed with NSCLC almost 4 years ago. I had small nodules in both lungs and after biopsy in one lung was give 5 doses of pinpointed...Reactions0reactionsComments4 comments
