“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...reactions2repliesSide EffectsTreatment
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...reactionscomments
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...reactions3repliesSleep
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...reactionscomments
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...reactions4comments
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...reactionscomments
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...reactionscomments
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...reactionscomments
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...reactions1comment
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...reactions4comments
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...reactionscomments
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...reactions4comments
Active todaySegmentectomy vs. Lobectomy for Non-Small Cell Diagnosis...I am a 63-year-old, healthy, non-smoking male who was diagnosed with lung cancer in June. I saw a highly recommended (including by other physicians) Thoracic Surgeon in my area who...reactions9repliesSurgeryTreatment
Understanding Targeted Therapies in Lung Cancer (Part 2)...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...reactionscomments
Doctors Assumed My Mom Had Lung Cancer...The stigma killed my mom. My 77-year-old mom smoked. Didn’t go to doctors. Got a stomach flu type thing, went to the ER. There doctors decided she had lung cancer...reactions1comment
The Hope of Modern Medicine...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...reactionscomments
Life...It Can Change Faster Than You Expect...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...reactions3comments
Lung Cancer Patients’ Experiences on Marriages, Relationships, Dating and Sex (Part 4)...Early this month I invited ladies from Norway, England, Singapore, USA, and Canada on a Zoom call to talk about their experiences with marriage, relationships, dating, and sex after lung...reactionscomments
Never Ever Give Up...Cancer Survivor from New York Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital November 2019. I fought alcoholism early in life and survived it. I served in the United States Navy and became a...reactions2comments
