Twenty years ago, Amie Hyman was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was fortunate that it was caught early. Her treatment plan consisted of chemotherapy, radiation, and a course of Tamoxifen. In August, 2017, her battle with breast cancer was
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Within the lung cancer community, it is rare to hear someone refer to either themselves or their loved one as being in remission. Rather, the use of the phrase NED (no evidence of disease) allows patients to feel the
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A car accident when she was just 34 years old quite possibly saved Yovana Maria Portillo’s life. Many times, lung cancer symptoms do not appear in the early stages of lung cancer. Instead, most lung cancers are diagnosed in
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In November, 2018, Carol Brickell - along with her husband and co-workers - developed a cough. It was winter, everyone around her was coughing and, for a while, she didn’t think much of it. When the cough persisted, however,
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In this 3-episode series called The First 7 Days, the Hope With Answers: Living With Lung Cancer podcast team helps you manage those initial days of a lung cancer diagnosis. These podcasts will help you create a roadmap to
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Toward the end of 2015, Tabitha Paccione developed a cough. Because she was a first grade teacher, and first-grade students tend to be little petri dishes, she - and her doctor - assumed it was just a cold. The
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How An Experimental MET Inhibitor Saved Laura Greco’s Life A freak car accident – one that, by all rights, should have killed her – might have saved Laura Greco’s life. While driving home with her then six-year-old son from
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Take these steps in your lung cancer journeyDownload a printable version of The First 7 Steps and get access to the First 7 Steps Resource Library to start creating your action plan through your personalized lung cancer journey. Take
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Like many other lung cancer patients, Terri Conneran’s road to diagnosis did not follow a direct route. For the entire summer leading up to her diagnosis in January 2017, she’d been under the weather. First she was told her
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Currently, the biomarkers that have been identified for potential targeted therapy treatments for lung cancer are: EGFR, ALK, KRAS, MET, HER2, ROS1, BRAF, RET, NTRK1, PID3CA, MED1, VEGFR2, HER3, and IGF-1R. Of those, so far only EGFR, ALK+, and
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