Steve Harrision survived lung cancer | carboplatin | pleural fusion | pemetrexed | bronchoscopy
DESCRIPTION: When Steve Harrison experienced fatigue, back soreness and shoulder pain in 2024, he attributed it to his “getting old.” He was in his early fifties. But when he began to have difficulty breathing, he sought medical attention. Because Steve also had asthma, his doctor had COPD, she prescribed an inhaler. That did little to no good. He saw another doctor who ran a variety of tests, which found pleural fusion. After a bronchoscopy and a biopsy, he was diagn
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Anne Shimabukuro beat pancreatic cancer with a regimen of chemotherapy and radiation treatment.
DESCRIPTION In 2005, Anne Shimabukuro of Potomac, Maryland, a healthy mother of mom, began to feel a sharp pain in her left side after a...
Jul 21, 202312 min read
Gary Brausen survived Stage 3B lung cancer | bronchoscopy | adenocarcinoma | cisplatin | alimta
DESCRIPTION In 2010, Gary Brausen started coughing quite a bit, which he thought was no big deal until it continued to get worse. He got...
Feb 7, 202220 min read
Jenni Dyrdahl survived lung cancer | Stage IV metastatic adenocarcinoma | immunotherapy | PDL-1+
DESCRIPTION Unlike many on a cancer journey, it took Jenni Dyrdahl was taken on a lengthy, circuitous, painful ordeal before she was...
Aug 2, 202019 min read