Chemotherapy for Lung Cancer: 115 Real Stories
115 stories match lung cancer and chemotherapy. 60 of them mention radiation.
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Rachel’s Survivor Story
Rachel Chua Bradley was 50 when she was diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer and treated near home in northern Virginia. A few years later, the cancer came back. Rachel, an ICU nurse, wanted more information and a plan she trusted, so she went to MD…
Read this storySmall Cell Lung Cancer: Montessa’s Survivor Story
Montessa Lee was 28 when she was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer, a diagnosis that came far earlier in life than many people expect. This third part of her Patient Story series focuses on navigating life after diagnosis and treatment. Her treatment path…
Read this storySmall Cell Lung Cancer: Montessa’s Survivor Story
Montessa Lee was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer at 28. This second video in her series centers on getting through treatment. The treatment path named for her story is chemotherapy, radiation, and brain radiation. That combination shaped both the…
Read this storySmall Cell Lung Cancer: Montessa’s Survivor Story
Montessa Lee was 28 when she was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer. This first video in her series focuses on how she got diagnosed, then connects to later parts about treatment and support. The diagnosis itself challenged assumptions about who gets lung…
Read this storyStage III KRAS Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Terri’s Survivor Story
Terri Conneran was 55 when she was diagnosed with Stage IIIA KRAS-mutated non-small cell lung cancer. Her symptoms first looked like asthma, allergies, bronchitis, or pneumonia, but breathing problems kept getting worse. An X-ray done after she developed…
Read this storyStage IV EGFR Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Saila’s Patient Story
Saila Hanninen was 35 in 2016 and had recently completed her ninth marathon and first full Ironman when her health began to change. Slower training times, lower-back pain, a persistent cough, and increasing shortness of breath eventually led to testing. In…
Read this storyStage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Tomma’s Patient Story
Tomma Hargraves discovered a small lump on the left side of her neck in 2006. A biopsy showed non-small cell lung cancer, and scans found a tumor in her right lung with extensive lymph node involvement. Her initial diagnosis was Stage III lung cancer. Tomma…
Read this storyStage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Tomma’s Patient Story
Tomma Hargraves noticed a small bump on the left side of her neck in October 2006. A biopsy led to a diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer, and scans showed a tumor in the upper right lung with extensive lymph-node involvement. She was diagnosed with Stage…
Read this storyLung Cancer: Keith’s Survivor Story
Keith Medovich’s lung cancer had been cured more than a decade earlier with high-dose chemotherapy and radiation, but late effects from treatment later threatened his breathing. By 2015, scarring from his 2003 radiation treatment had severely narrowed parts…
Read this storyStage IV RET Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Sara’s Patient Story
Sara Whitlock was 47 when she was diagnosed in 2010 with Stage IV lung cancer and told her chance of surviving 5 years was about 3%. She feared she would not see her daughters grow up. Her lung cancer was non-small cell lung cancer caused by a RET fusion, a…
Read this storyStage IV ALK Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: James’s Patient Story
James “Rocky” Lagno developed a persistent dry cough around Thanksgiving 2010. As his breathing worsened and he began coughing up blood, lung cancer became a concern. He was diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer and went to Boston for intravenous…
Read this storyStage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Donna’s Patient Story
Donna Fernandez was 59 and active with her dogs when unexplained weight gain led her to a primary care visit. Her doctor felt a knot near her collarbone and arranged imaging. A PET scan and biopsy ultimately showed Stage IV nonsquamous non-small cell lung…
Read this storyStage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Renee’s Patient Story
Renee Shine was 63 when a routine checkup on Christmas Eve 2012 led to a chest X-ray and CT scan that found a mass in her right lung. A biopsy confirmed adenocarcinoma, a type of non-small cell lung cancer, with extensive lymph-node involvement. She was…
Read this storyStage IV EGFR Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Ginger’s Patient Story
Ginger Tam sought care for a persistent cough and learned that she had Stage IV non-small cell lung cancer. The diagnosis was devastating for the single mother, whose daughter was 8 at the time. She sought a second opinion at a research hospital and became…
Read this storyFinding Happiness Despite Stage IV Lung Cancer
At age 50, this patient was diagnosed with Stage IV non-small cell lung cancer on August 5, 2015, only about 6 weeks after a persistent cough began. She had never smoked and had worked as a radiation therapist for more than 20 years, so she pushed for further…
Read this storyLung Cancer: Diego’s Patient Story
Diego wrote this entry after more than a month away from the blog, describing a difficult but meaningful pause in his lung cancer course. He had spent about 10 days hospitalized because pain in the hip and left iliac region had become unbearable. Chemotherapy…
Read this storyStage IV Lung Cancer: Bill’s Patient Story
Bill Smith had no symptoms when a routine preoperative physical in 2010 led his doctor to order a chest X-ray and refer him to a lung specialist. He was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. A full-body scan also found 2 tumors in his brain, and he had gamma…
Read this storyEGFR-mutated lung cancer on AZD9291 clinical trial with improved symptoms
This Noxte post was written from Asturias, where the patient had gone after an oncology visit in Majadahonda. The visit on 15 July focused on toxicity monitoring for AZD9291, the study drug he was receiving through a clinical trial. The checks were…
Read this storyLung cancer diary: chemotherapy completed and supportive symptom strategies
This lung cancer diary entry was written after the patient had finished chemotherapy and was waiting for the next PET scan, scheduled for December 9, 2014. A conversation during chemotherapy with another long-term lung cancer survivor made him think about the…
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