Coping With Cancer

By Juanita Segura for Lungcancer.net In the last 7 ½ years I’ve met so many wonderful lung cancer survivors and lost many along the way. Many of them I’ve became close with and bonded regardless of how far we are from each other. We manage to keep in touch and…

*May 2022* Patients with cancer face a trajectory marked by emotional and physical distress that can be associated with both diagnosis and treatment. Fear of cancer recurrence or progression has been considered one of the most common unmet needs reported by patients diagnosed with both localized and metastatic disease. Fear…

*May 2022* by Juanita Segura For the past four or five years, I never worried about my getting my results after a CT scan. I was always so confident that I would receive good results and for the most part I did. I would literally go to my scan appointment…

*May 2022* Upstage Lung Cancer hosts Hildy Grossman and Jordan Rich speak with Jill Feldman, Ivy Elkins and Dann Wonser, EGFR survivors.  Jill Feldman and Ivy Elkins, of the EGFR Resisters advocacy group return to share more about the work of their organization to help patients and their families. They…

*March 2022* Caregiving may be the most challenging role a person can take on, but also one of the most valuable. In some instances, providing physical and emotional care to a loved one can become a round-the-clock job that may shift other priorities like career or relationships. However, spending this…

*By Ivy Elkins* All of us living with lung cancer, whether diagnosed at an early stage or later stage, have to deal with periodic scans. Those of us with metastatic disease usually have scans every three months, while others with local disease might have them less frequently. No matter how often…

*April 2022* By Annabelle Gurwitch, Lung Cancer Survivor My Stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis came out of the blue after I went in for a routine coronavirus test in 2020. In my first year of treatment, I made lemons out of lemonade, determined to squeeze every drop of whatever time…

*February 2022* By Lisa Goldman, lung cancer survivor Have you ever gone to the airport to catch a flight to another country and you arrive at the international terminal only to discover you’re in the wrong place, apparently your international flight isn’t “international enough” to qualify for the international terminal.…

*December 2021* We have lost a fair number of people in our group recently which has taken an emotional toll on many of us. The LCRF responded to our needs by scheduling a zoom session on December 9th with Win Boerckel, MSW, MBA, LCSW-R, CancerCare's Long Island Director of Social Service.…

*November 2021*  Provided by Tess Taft, MSW, LICSW, and oncology psychotherapist.© Since research shows that when we worry about someone we can actually be sending them our fear, this guided imagery is something much more helpful that you can do when you catch yourself worrying about someone, or even yourself.…