Category: lung-cancer

Along with a lung cancer diagnosis come details that can make the news all the more overwhelming. One of these pertains to lymph node involvement. If you’ve just been told you have lung cancer, you may wonder why your lymph nodes are a concern.  With this in mind, Everyday Health asked Mara Antonoff, MD, to explain why it’s… Continue reading Questions About Lymph Nodes

Something seemed very wrong to Carmen Guerra, MD. It was 1996. She was a newly minted primary care physician practicing at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia, and her Black patients were being diagnosed with lung cancer at a higher rate than her white patients. Equally distressing, even when their ages and general… Continue reading Carmen Guerra, MD: Using Patient Navigators to Reduce Lung Cancer’s Impact on a Hard-Hit Philadelphia Community

Diagnosed With Metastatic Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Is Genetic Testing the Next Step? You probably know that genetic testing can sometimes be used to assess your cancer risk. What you may not know is that genetic testing might also be used after you’ve been diagnosed with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to look for changes —… Continue reading What You Need to Know About Testing for Tumor Mutations in Metastatic Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

If you’ve been diagnosed with non-small-cell lung cancer, the first thing you and your doctor will need to decide is whether you’ll be treated first with combination chemotherapy (two to three drugs at a time), a targeted therapy, or immunotherapy. It used to be that all patients diagnosed with non-small-cell lung cancer automatically got chemotherapy.… Continue reading Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: What to Expect if You're Getting Chemo

It can be hard to find the right words when someone you know and love tells you they’ve been diagnosed with lung cancer . This is especially true given this disease is often — though not always — associated with lifestyle factors, in particular smoking . In fact, studies have suggested that lung cancer patients report the… Continue reading 5 Things Not to Say to Someone With Lung Cancer (and 4 Things You Should Say)

One of the most exciting advances in the treatment of metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the development of drugs that target specific changes, or mutations, that occur inside cells when they become cancerous. These targeted therapies can often identify and attack cancer cells more effectively than conventional chemotherapy can — and usually with fewer side effects.… Continue reading What to Know About Targeted Therapies for Metastatic NSCLC

Walter Pearsall was enjoying a fall weekend getaway in 2014 with his wife, Lethie, when he started coughing up blood. The father of 13 — Pearsall also has 22 grandchildren — began to panic. “I was on my balcony waiting for my wife to get dressed, and when I saw all that blood, I started… Continue reading Standing Up for Better Lung Cancer Care

In 2001, seven patients with lung cancer in the Chicago area came together to form LUNGevity, an organization dedicated to educational and supportive resources for people with lung cancer and survivors. At the time, “there really weren’t any lung cancer foundations at all,” says Linda Wenger, chief marketing officer of the organization. In 2010, LUNGevity… Continue reading LUNGevity Spotlight

In recent years, advancements in the way doctors classify non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have led to huge strides in the treatment of the disease. Until a little over a decade ago, all types of NSCLC were essentially treated in the same way, typically with chemotherapy. However, now specific types of NSCLC can now be managed… Continue reading Diagnosed with Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer? Here’s Why You Need Biomarker Testing

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death — by far. More people die from this disease each year than breast, colon, and prostate cancers combined. Lung cancer is the second most common cancer among both men and women (not including skin cancer). There are 238,340 new cases expected in the United States in… Continue reading What Is Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer? Symptoms, Stages, Treatment, and More