Living With Lung Cancer For 10 Years

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.

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. Having lung cancer means living with a degree of uncertainty. 10 years after her diagnosis of stage 4 non small cell lung cancer with metastasis to the brain my mom is alive. This is not the end just the beginning.

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. 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. Michael weitz an emergency physician has been living with lung cancer for over 10 years. When it comes to things like how you.

Some doctors may advise different follow up schedules. Source that was the statistic that haunted me along with doctors who said thing like this treatment is only palliative yet here she is. Living as a lung cancer survivor. Listen to your doctors but also educate yourself information from well known organizations.

For some people with lung cancer treatment may remove or destroy the cancer. The 5 year survival rate for stage 4 lung cancer is one percent.