Living With Lung Cancer For 10 Years

While everyone s lung cancer story looks different it is rarely simple and straightforward.

Living with lung cancer for 10 years.

When it comes to things like how you. 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. The 5 year survival rate for stage 4 lung cancer is one percent. Michael weitz an emergency physician has been living with lung cancer for over 10 years.

Source that was the statistic that haunted me along with doctors who said thing like this treatment is only palliative yet here she is. 10 years after her diagnosis of stage 4 non small cell lung cancer with metastasis to the brain my mom is alive. Stay strong and focus on the positive i know this is hard. 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.

This is not the end just the beginning. Listen to your doctors but also educate yourself information from well known organizations. 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. 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. Having lung cancer means living with a degree of uncertainty.