
Living with Lung Cancer Blogs
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The holiday season is busy and stressful under the best of circumstances. This can be even truer for lung cancer patients and their loved ones, who are juggling not only the
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Gifts for Someone Diagnosed with Lung Cancer
When a family member or friend is diagnosed with cancer, you may feel like you want to do something to help or to make them feel supported and loved. While being there for someone -
Meet Your Medical Team: Thoracic Surgeons
Dr. Donington is Professor and Chief of the Section of General Thoracic Surgery at University of Chicago Medicine. Her clinical and interests focus on the early diagnosis and
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Meet Your Medical Team: Radiation Oncologists
Kristin Higgins, MD is an Associate Professor within the Emory School of Medicine and serves as the Medical Director of Radiation Oncolo-gy at the main campus location. She
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Meet Your Medical Team: Social Workers
Erin Charla Peterson, LCSW, is Senior Social Work Counselor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who provides counseling
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Starting Your Own Lung Cancer Support Group
With the significant scientific advances in the disease, lung cancer can now be managed as a chronic illness. Despite that, this diagnosis can still turn your life upside down -
Meet Your Medical Team: Pulmonologists
Brett Bade, MD, is a pulmonologist at Yale University and the West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He has board certifications in Internal Medicine, Pulmonology, and
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Tips to Prepare for Traveling with Lung Cancer
Traveling can be stressful under the best of circumstances, but particularly anxiety-inducing after a cancer diagnosis. Being diagnosed with cancer does not have to put an end to
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Advice for Newly Diagnosed Lung Cancer Patients
A lung cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming. It may feel like your world has flipped upside down. It may feel like there is so much to do, you don’t know where to start. It may -
Lung Cancer Tips for Summer
Summer is upon us! It is a time of fun, celebration, and activities. When you have lung cancer, you may feel summer is more challenging than enjoyable. However, you can still make -
Finding Hope in Emerging Therapies
In 2017, I was a medical resident. I heard from more senior residents in my Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) program that you could have a normal life in the five months of -
The Benefit of Early Detection
I am a survivor. My story is one of early detection. My story could be very different if not for that. In 2015, I had a pulmonary embolism. A CT scan of the embolism showed that