By Juanita Segura for Lungcancer.net What is it like living with lung cancer? Well for me it can be hell on earth at times. I go to sleep and wake up every day knowing I have lung cancer but have been making the most of it. CT scans every three months, MRIs…

By Lalaine Alfaro for Lungcancer.net How can you get ready to do something though being scared to death or most frightened? Despite fear you still have the ability to be useful. There are moments I feel a great deal of fear and anxiety about the situations or choices when living…

*August 2022* Dr. Isabel Preeshagul was joined by Dr. Marleen Meyers and EGFR Resisters co-founder Jill Feldman for the LCRF Lung Cancer Community Talk. Topics focused on ways to manage physical and emotional side effects, including coping with anxiety and fear, and a discuss on social and financial challenges that…

By Juanita Segura for Lungcancer.net In November of 2014 when I was diagnosed with lung cancer my daughter was 17 years old and a senior in high school. My two boys were 19 and 20 years old and had already graduated from high school and were in college. My second…

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…