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...In September of 2019, Health Union (the parent company of lungcancer.net) partnered with the US Pain Foundation for our first ever Chronic Pain in America survey to ask members of...

...At the Zoom meeting early this month, I invited three ladies to talk about the changes in their experiences about marriage, relationships, dating, and sex due to lung cancer. I...

...Besides having to go through chemotherapy, the hardest thing about cancer is fighting the fear. It doesn’t matter where you are in your cancer journey. Recently diagnosed, 3 years in...

...Last summer, I was preparing for my older son’s departure for his freshman year at a university over 800 miles away. While I shopped for dorm necessities, attended local meet-ups...

...Deciding to talk – or not talk – about your lung cancer can be a very personal decision. For some, it makes sense to only share your details with your...

...I was diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago. After three years of struggling with all the symptoms of lung cancer and the side effect of the treatment, I had...

...Cancer invades our bodies. In some cases, it overtakes our bodies. Yesterday I learned that I will remain on Taxotere indefinitely. It is my new maintenance drug. The dose has been...

...New treatment options for small cell lung cancer (SCLC) are of the utmost importance. Although medications have not changed much for SCLC over the years, other treatment options, like radiation...

...Read the beginning of Dusty's story in A Life Well Lived (Part 1). Many of us spend countless hours doing advocacy work. This is not a job. It is a...

...My friend Karla was murdered. I am still reeling from the shock. Karla was a lung cancer advocate. We met about eight years ago, not long after her husband Russ...

...I'm a visual type of person and always want to express myself through paint and drawing. However, since my childhood, I was convinced that I could not paint or draw...

...Sometimes just having lung cancer seems like enough, right? It complicated enough, but then there are the added scares. I am not talking about progression. I am speaking of all...

...Recently, the American Association of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) came out with language guidelines for all of their meetings and communications. The goal of these guidelines, called “The Language of Respect,”...

...When it comes to lung cancer, every diagnosis story is different. There is no one symptom that everyone experiences prior to finding out they have lung cancer. To find out...