What are your favorite hobbies or distractions?...Life with lung cancer can be stressful. Whether it’s scanxiety, biopsies, or something unrelated to cancer, we all feel overwhelmed from time to time. What do you do to take...reactions13repliesScans & ScanxietyBiopsies
How to Monitor Your Health with At-Home Devices...At-home monitoring can help you better manage chronic health conditions. It can also aid in your recovery after medical procedures. Using this technology, you can regularly record your health data...reactionscomments
Privacy Concerns When Going Virtual...Telehealth has become a popular way to see a doctor. Today, you can get many health services remotely. And, some studies show you may get better care at a lower...reactionscomments
How Do I Find Virtual Health Services?...It can be overwhelming to figure out how to find telehealth services, especially if you do not already have a doctor. But many companies offer a range of virtual health...reactionscomments
A Look at the Services Virtual Care Offers...Telehealth or virtual care can be used to access many different types of health services. To get started, talk to your doctor to find out which virtual services are right...reactionscomments
Telehealth 101: How to Visit Your Doctor Online...Telehealth is a virtual service that lets patients interact with a healthcare professional online. This lets doctors and patients connect without being in the same room, or even the same...reactionscomments
SCLC Community Spotlight: Deborah...Deborah Bunton shares her story about life with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and how since her diagnosis she's been searching for others who share her diagnosis. After learning about...reactions5comments
How to Talk to Healthy People as a Lung Cancer Patient?...I was a happy and worry-free girl before I was 13 in China. Then the university was re-opened after 10 years of closure, and entrance exams were very competitive. So...reactionscomments
Practical Tips for Overcoming Chemobrain: Part 3...In Practical Tips for Overcoming Chemobrain: Part 2, Dusty talks about focusing on your strengths, acknowledging weaknesses and setting goals when it comes to improving memory and managing chemobrain. “We...reactions1comment
The Importance of Nurses...Starting from the very first days after I was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2013, I realized the importance that nurses would play in my new normal. My oncologist’s nurse...reactions3comments
Lung Inflammation...I was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in Jan 2014, and very blessed and thankful to be able to say I am a survivor. After 6 months of chemo...reactions1comment
The Benefits of Physical Rehabilitation of a Person with Cancer...Hearing the dreaded diagnosis of cancer is something no one wishes to hear. Many questions come along with it... What kind? How bad? How long do I have? What do...reactionscomments
The Incident: Part 2...Samantha continues her story from The Incident: Part 1. I climbed into the back of the ambulance. It was the first time I wasn't carried out on a stretcher. It felt...reactionscomments
No Shame In Lung Cancer...I have been busy reading. Reading and reading and reading. I have been reading articles written by other contributors here at LungCancer.net. One thing I have found we have in...reactions10comments
The Frustrations of Unexplainable Symptoms...There comes a time on this journey where you want answers, as everything that ails us can’t just be cancer or can it. In the beginning, a headache meant my...reactions30comments
Life After Cancer Is An Art: Making “Better Normal” After Cancer Treatment...I was diagnosed with lung cancer 4 and a half years ago. In the first 3 years, it felt like I was on a rollercoaster and had no idea what...reactions3comments
Patti Henry...I grew up in Philadelphia, PA. I currently live at the beach in New Jersey. Growing up in a city exposes you to a multitude of environmental hazards. Looking back...
Practical Tips for Overcoming Chemobrain: Part 2...In Practical Tips for Overcoming Chemobrain: Part 1, Dusty talks about harnessing brainpower to improving memory and manage chemobrain. “When we talk about improving memory, we’re talking about prospective memory,”...reactionscomments
The Incident: Part 1...I'm a single mom to an active 14 year old girl. It can be stressful at times, but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. She talked me into getting...reactionscomments
(Closed) Take the Fatigue and Health Survey!...The 2020 Fatigue and Health survey has now closed. Thank you for your interest! We are excited to share the results with you soon.Exhaustion, tiredness, weariness... fatigue. We know chronic...reactionscomments