Coping With Cancer

*March 2024* By Juanita Segura Recently, I’ve been asked who my rock is and how have they helped me. Many might automatically think it’s my husband, children, or family. But honestly, it’s not; it’s my lung cancer community, my tribe! Now, for many, it just might be their spouse or children…

By Ashley Rickles A cancer journey can be very difficult - often confusing and quite painful. This journey often comes with lots of tears. Sometimes the journey becomes life lessons. I have learned some really empowering lessons along the way. People treat you different People will absolutely treat you differently while on a…

*October 2023* by Juanita Segura Living with lung cancer is rough. Many look at me and tell me, “Juanita, you look so good,” or “You look so well.” But they don’t know what I’m going through mentally. Yes, we try to stay positive and do positive things, but that’s a chore…

*September 2023* by Alison Mayer Sachs, MSW, LSW, OSW-C, FAOSW, Director, Community Outreach & Cancer Support, Services, Eisenhower Lucy Curci Cancer Center, Eisenhower Medical Center and lung cancer survivor “Scanxiety” is a term that people with cancer use to describe the anxiousness and fear they experience before, during, and after scans…

*June 2023* by Linda Cohen After being diagnosed with an incurable cancer, I had to reframe my thinking to focus on the positive. I figured I had two choices after I heard, “Your cancer is incurable.” And of course, those were the only words that I initially heard shouted at…