Living With Lung Cancer For 10 Years

While everyone s lung cancer story looks different it is rarely simple and straightforward.

Living with lung cancer for 10 years.

I ve been living with lung cancer for 5 years now which had traveled to my brain and spine but treatment has cleared those areas brain spine. He s currently enrolled in his third clinical trial he explains his methods for living day to day with lung cancer and the importance of recognizing the uniqueness of your own disease. Stay strong and focus on the positive i know this is hard. 10 years after her diagnosis of stage 4 non small cell lung cancer with metastasis to the brain my mom is alive.

This is not the end just the beginning. For some people with lung cancer treatment may remove or destroy the cancer. Source that was the statistic that haunted me along with doctors who said thing like this treatment is only palliative yet here she is. Listen to your doctors but also educate yourself information from well known organizations.

Living as a lung cancer survivor. About every 3 months for the first couple of years after treatment about every 6 months for the next several years then at least yearly after 5 years. Having lung cancer means living with a degree of uncertainty. The 5 year survival rate for stage 4 lung cancer is one percent.

When it comes to things like how you. Michael weitz an emergency physician has been living with lung cancer for over 10 years.