Lung Cancer: 296 Real Stories
296 stories match lung cancer. 140 of them mention targeted therapy.
Stage IV Lung Cancer Patient Story
About 3 years after learning he had lung cancer, this Spanish blogger wrote a farewell post from a much harder point in the illness. Recent months had brought bone metastases, pneumonia, severe pain, feverish evenings, night sweats, low-oxygen episodes, and…
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…
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This Noxte entry focused less on a cancer treatment change and more on how fragile life with lung cancer had become. The patient had recently seen oncology on Friday, November 18. At that visit, his blood tests, lung exam, and oxygenation were reassuring, but…
Read this storyBRCA1 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Nadine’s Survivor Story
Nadine Beech was 27, healthy and a non-smoker when she was diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer in 1997. After she started spitting up blood following a water-skiing accident, the problem was first treated as a bruised lung. Several doctors later, an 8…
Read this storyStage IV Lung Cancer Patient Story
This Noxte update captured the uncertainty of living scan to scan with metastatic lung cancer. At the oncology visit, the patient’s doctor had preliminary CT information but was still waiting for the final radiology report. She had spoken with radiology about…
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This Noxte entry centered on the emotional and social burden of living with lung cancer, not only the physical disease. The patient described “social death,” meaning the isolation and stigma that can slowly separate a person with cancer from ordinary life. At…
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…
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This Noxte update centered on a new worry during ongoing lung cancer treatment. A CT had raised concern for a bone lesion, and MRI confirmed a single focal lytic lesion in the left iliac bone. The report described it as suspicious for metastasis in the…
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This Noxte entry captured the mixed emotions of a scan that brought both relief and fear. The patient had a CT on 22 August and reviewed the result with oncology on 26 August. Some findings were encouraging: a paratracheal lymph node was stable, small right…
Read this storyEGFR Lung Cancer Patient Story
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…
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This Noxte entry described a rapid change in treatment after a difficult scan. Oncology moved the patient’s planned June CT earlier to 25 May and also scheduled him to see his oncologist the same day. The reason became clear: the laboratory accepted an…
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This Noxte post focused on pathology details that complicated the patient’s understanding of his lung cancer. A bronchoscopy performed on 5 February had produced a biopsy report from Hospital Puerta de Hierro. The tumor had first been understood as…
Read this storyEGFR Lung Cancer Patient Story
This Noxte entry followed a disappointing oncology update on 19 April. The patient learned that the blood sample sent to the laboratory was negative for T790M resistance, so he could not enter the AZD9291/osimertinib clinical trial. He found that frustrating…
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This Noxte entry reported a clear setback. On 12 April, the patient received CT results showing that the lung tumor was still growing. The right upper-lobe mass had increased from 4.9 by 5 cm to 5.7 by 6.5 cm. It was causing more narrowing of the apical…
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This Noxte post focused on the physical and emotional exhaustion of living from scan to scan with lung cancer. The patient had just had another CT and was scheduled to review results and blood work on 12 April. He was not optimistic because cough, chest pain…
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This Noxte entry was about uncertainty, one of the hardest parts of living with lung cancer. The patient had just had an oncology visit, but the blood result from the latest liquid biopsy was not available. He understood that the test was still part of a…
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This Noxte post explained how liquid biopsy was beginning to affect the patient’s lung cancer care. He had been participating in blood-based monitoring to track treatment effects and possible resistance. At an oncology visit, his doctors had the latest blood…
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By January 2016, this Spanish lung cancer blogger was marking 2 years of survival while facing a new treatment setback. Recent bronchoscopy and blood testing confirmed that the cancer had developed resistance, including the T790M mutation. That finding…
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In January 2016, this lung cancer patient learned that a recent CT scan explained his worsening cough. The scan showed clear progression: the right upper-lobe mass had grown to about 4.9 x 5 cm, with extension to the visceral pleura, involvement around the…
Read this storyEGFR Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patient Story
In December 2015, this patient was living with EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer and taking Tarceva, also called erlotinib, which he had started in January. Much of this post reflected his effort to understand the fast-changing treatment landscape. He…
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By September 2015, this lung cancer patient was trying to rebuild ordinary life around ongoing disease. He wrote that the tumor was still in place, but he looked well, had no obvious outward symptoms, and was more than 1.5 years from diagnosis. Treatment side…
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In July 2015, this patient described a quieter summer with lung cancer. After the stress of the last CT results, time away from doctors and testing brought a sense of calm. He was spending much of the summer in Asturias and only interrupted the trip to…
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In March 2015, this lung cancer patient received encouraging CT news. After living through the stress that comes before every scan, the latest results brought relief and what he described as a period of respite. The retained text around this record is mostly…
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In early March 2015, this lung cancer patient was in the difficult waiting period around a CT scan. He was taking erlotinib, also known as Tarceva, and the side effects were affecting both his body and his mood. People following his blog noticed that he was…
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