Living With Lung Cancer For 10 Years

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.

Living with lung cancer for 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. Having lung cancer means living with a degree of uncertainty. 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. Some doctors may advise different follow up schedules.

This is not the end just the beginning. For some people with lung cancer treatment may remove or destroy the cancer. 10 years after her diagnosis of stage 4 non small cell lung cancer with metastasis to the brain my mom is alive. Living as a lung cancer survivor.

Source that was the statistic that haunted me along with doctors who said thing like this treatment is only palliative yet here she is. Stay strong and focus on the positive i know this is hard. While everyone s lung cancer story looks different it is rarely simple and straightforward. Michael weitz an emergency physician has been living with lung cancer for over 10 years.

When it comes to things like how you. The 5 year survival rate for stage 4 lung cancer is one percent.