Stories

My melanoma had progressed to my brain, both lungs, liver, kidney, gallbladder, left adrenal gland, and spinal cord. Three Gamma Knife radiations to the brain, two craniotomies, and the first...

Completely healthy, I thought... I was so fit at 55 it was crazy. Then, after 2 bronchoscopes, I was diagnosed with stage 4 NSCL lung cancer. I had it in...

The healthiest man on the town until anemia sent me to the hospital. After receiving a colonoscopy, then removing 18 inches of my colon, what followed was chemotherapy. The initial...

I have been analyzed with this type of cancer in my left lung. I had clear cell carcinoma in my right kidney a few years back and now it has...

Hi my name is Pam Dight I was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. It was located in my adrenal gland and lymph nodes. I was told I had 1...

I have stage 4 NSCLC lung cancer since January 2018. I am in full remission still. I started treatment in Kentucky, at the University of Kentucky.They put me in remission...

I was diagnosed on Sept 11, 2020 with stage 4 lung cancer and I have never smoked a day in my life. No one on either side of my family...

I was diagnosed with breast cancer August 2019 and my primary care doc sent me off to Texas Oncology to begin the task of seeing oncologist, testing, and preparing for...

I first developed a poisonous taste in my saliva and my knees to my toes were numb. That’s what took me to my ENT specialist. He sent me to a...

Hi everyone... 10 yrs ago, I had stage one bladder cancer, had TUR for removal and went about my life. 8 years ago, a 5MM nodule appears on my upper...

Hi Everyone, I was diagnosed in 2018 with stage 2A non-small cell lung cancer with 1 lymph node just outside my lung. Did a year of immunotherapy finished in June...

I was lucky I quit smoking over 10 years ago. I was not going to the doctor. I felt fine. One day my boyfriend says go to his primary doctor...

I was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer overnight and it came as a big surprise to me. I went into the emergency room for a stomach ache for cramps...

My name is Mike Dow I just turned 40. I was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in January last year. I am currently doing treatments at Sloan Kettering in...

I’m a non-smoker, a Mom of three, an Accountant, and married for 31 years. My Stage IV Adenocarcinoma lung cancer journey began in Dec 4, 2019. Hence, I am now...

Im 59 years old. I was initially diagnosed with stage 2b. Grade 3, Poorly differentiated. During surgery, what was to be a pneumonectomy or lobectomy, turned wedge resection, I was...

My cancer journey began when I went to my primary care doctor because the medication he gave me for osteoporosis was causing me to have a nagging cough. He took...

My dad passed away from lung cancer on May 4, 2001, he was just 57 years old. He was the youngest of 5 children. 4 boys and 1 girl. His...

November is Lung Cancer Awareness month and also my one-year anniversary as a Lung Cancer Survivor. Last Fall at #SupplySide West I knew I was sick, but I did not...

I was diagnosed in November 2018. A small cancer diagnosis in my right lung and was inoperable. I was put on Keytruda and had 2 weeks of brain radiation because...