Gut Bacteria Could Affect How We Respond to Immunotherapy...Did you know that your gut bacteria might predict whether or not you will respond to immunotherapy? Three different studies have found...reactionscomments
Living Life Despite Lung Cancer (an Interview)...My friend and fellow stage IV lung cancer survivor, Karen Loss, recently embarked on a 9-day trip to Israel. We thought some...reactionscomments
Living Life Despite Lung Cancer (an Interview) -- Part II...Read Part I of Living Life Despite Lung Cancer (an Interview) HERE. My friend and fellow lung cancer survivor, Karen Loss, recently...reactionscomments
Dating with the Big C...My day started out innocently enough...beautiful Virginia fall day, crystal blue skies, wispy clouds, the ever-present hum of the jets on patrol...reactions2comments
Relationships, Dating, and Stage 4 Lung Cancer 2.0...A few months back, I wrote an article about how hard it was to meet someone who will accept you as a...reactions2comments
The Curious Case of Cancer's Comic Timing...Oh, Cancer, sometimes you're so funny. People seem to enjoy anthropomorphizing cancer and its effects. We hear terms like battling, fighting, surviving...reactions2comments
I Have to Start Chemo ... And I'm Scared...It was six years ago, but I well remember my first chemo treatment ... and the days leading up to it. It...reactions3comments
Faith, Battle, Positivity and Other Irritants...I have always been a person of deep faith. I don\'t go to church like I should, to say the least, but...reactions10comments
Lung Cancer and an Evolving World View...It is almost impossible to conceive of how a lung cancer diagnosis could not change a patient's worldview. After all, the ramifications...reactionscomments
Lung Cancer Shock Ads…Do They Really Work?...When I was younger I can recall the subtle No smoking PSA’s (Public Service Announcements) that would showcase on the television every...reactions4comments
My Partner Is Not My Caregiver...In cancer terminology, there is a lot of very loaded language. Terms like "survivor" have become so ingrained that patients even worry...reactionscomments
Making Sense of Insurance Appeals...I recently attended a presentation on managing cancer costs. It was chockful of helpful hints. I share some of what I learned...reactions1comment
Defying Statistics...On November 27th, 2012, I lay in the bed of a hospital in downtown Atlanta. Having just had a craniotomy, I was...reactionscomments
Honoring Those Little Milestones...When we think of lung cancer, we might well think about the big milestones we hit if we are fortunate enough to...reactionscomments
The New Radioactive Man, Part 1: Preparation...I walk hunched over, lurching forward with a pronounced limp in my left leg. For the past two months, the pain shooting...reactionscomments
The New Radioactive Man, Part 2: In Process...Read part 1 of Jeffrey's article here. Lying down on the hard metal bench was its own special form of torture. The...reactionscomments
Painkillers vs Pain Relievers, Treating the Cause or the Symptom...I had an interesting chat with one of my doctors recently about pain relief. After dealing with quite a bit of nerve...reactionscomments
Guilty as Charged: the Stigma that Remains...As someone who spends quite a bit of time evangelizing about the need to re-imagine the lung cancer narrative and remove the...reactions2comments
Opioid Stigma and the Cancer Patient...I walked into my pharmacy and handed my prescriptions across the counter. The young man at the computer began typing them in...reactionscomments
The Importance of Looking Up...There is a simple story I often retell from one school-day afternoon in my teens. Autumn was perhaps my favorite time of...reactions1comment
