Living With Lung Cancer For 10 Years

He s currently enrolled in his third clinical trial he explains his methods for living day to day with lung cancer and the importance of recognizing the uniqueness of your own disease.

Living with lung cancer for 10 years. Listen to your doctors but also educate yourself information from well known organizations. About every 3 months for the first couple of years after treatment about every 6 months for the next several years then at least yearly after 5 years. When it comes to things like how you. For some people with lung cancer treatment may remove or destroy the cancer.

Living as a lung cancer survivor. I have only had lung cancer for a bit more than a year and i have not done any research on the longest living lung caner survivor. That said i know a person who has survived more than 12 years and is still kicking and i also know sever people who have between 5 and 7 years with stage 4 ling cancer. Having lung cancer means living with a degree of uncertainty.

I ve been living with lung cancer for 5 years now which had traveled to my brain and spine but treatment has cleared those areas brain spine. While everyone s lung cancer story looks different it is rarely simple and straightforward. Some doctors may advise different follow up schedules. Stay strong and focus on the positive i know this is hard.

Michael weitz an emergency physician has been living with lung cancer for over 10 years. This is not the end just the beginning.