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.

For some people with lung cancer treatment may remove or destroy the cancer. 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. While everyone s lung cancer story looks different it is rarely simple and straightforward. Having lung cancer means living with a degree of uncertainty.

Living as a lung cancer survivor. Stay strong and focus on the positive i know this is hard. 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. 10 years after her diagnosis of stage 4 non small cell lung cancer with metastasis to the brain my mom is alive.

When it comes to things like how you. 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. Some doctors may advise different follow up schedules. Michael weitz an emergency physician has been living with lung cancer for over 10 years.

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. Listen to your doctors but also educate yourself information from well known organizations.