Stories

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

My oncologist has agreed that I put my targeted therapy treatment a priority for now. Thanks to Alectinib my life is prolonged and my symptoms are getting better. Quarterly scans...

I was diagnosed in 2018 with salivary duct carcinoma. I had a 10-hour surgery in December, 2018. In 2019 had radiation and chemo and it looked like everything was ok...

Early 2016 I was sitting in a traffic jam on the freeway and slowly became more lightheaded, which I attributed to dehydration and began looking for a way to the...

I will say that when my former Primary Care Physician of many years made me feel like I was just complaining too much and that my symptoms were not real...

I was diagnosed Nov. 2018. I had just turned 51. I’m a middle school librarian and during Labor Day weekend, had a virus that seemed to hit me harder than...

My dear friend was in the hospital and had to have emergency heart surgery. I went to visit her and within 30 minutes of getting there, I became so ill...

This is going to be a little long. I have GERD (acid reflux) so I would have stomach pain quite a bit. But in December 2018, I was having pain...

Two years ago I went for a routine physical. My primary dr suggested a chest X-ray. A spot was found in the lower lobe of my right lung. I had...

Before the Pandemic, on a wintery day, and at my 55th year, I had shortness of breath at work. Proceeded directly to my general physician’s clinic. As soon as I...

My lung cancer was found on 1/9/19, due to having a very good primary care doctor. I had to go in to see him because I needed refills for the...

On April 4, 2016, 4 months before my 54th birthday, I was having trouble breathing and nearly passed out when getting up that morning. I had been having trouble breathing...

I was diagnosed with stage 4 adenocarcinoma December 2016. I had smoked for 30 years but had quit in October of 2005. I also had severe COPD. I quit because...

I had a cough that wouldn’t go away for the past year. I thought it was a “smokers cough” as I had smoked on and off for years and yet...

I knew I had COPD as I smoked 40 years. I had trouble breathing and first pulmonologist said it was all in my head. I fired him and my current...

I was diagnosed with Non-small lung cancer in October of last year stage 4. I've had multiple CT scans. I don't understand how they didn't catch it earlier. I'm starting...