Living with Lung Cancer Blogs
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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
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Meet Your Medical Team: Oncology Nurse Practitioners
The Role of an Oncology Nurse Practitioner in Lung Cancer Treatment: Q&A with Rasheda Persinger Adams, NP-C There are a number of doctors and other medical professionals who -
Tips for Managing Lung Cancer During the Holidays
The holidays are a time to celebrate, but oftentimes they can also be a time of stress as we try to create the perfect celebration. Organizing holiday festivities, bringing -
Balance After Cancer - Is it Even Possible? (Part 1 of 2)
My sister is a walking miracle. A survivor of stage 4 lung cancer for 6 years. Survived liver mets, brain mets, bone mets. On the 10th line of treatment, 35 years old, walking. My
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Putting Patients in the Center: Celebrating a Winning Cancer Care Team
Last month I had the honor of giving a presentation for the International Association of the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) Cancer Care Team award at the World Conference on Lung
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Many Hats of Caregiving (Part 3 of 3)
Carla’s lung mass kept on developing resistance to the drugs she was on, but luckily she usually had no symptoms save for some coughing. There were occasional side effects like
