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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Neal Augenstein survived Stage IV lung cancer | targeted therapy | tagrisso | osimertinib
DESCRIPTION It is not easy to survive Stage IV lung cancer, but through a regimen of targeted therapy, and the medication tagrisso, Neal...
Jun 26, 202311 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
Lori Shipman survived lung cancer | bronchoscopy | lobectomy | non-small cell adenocarcinoma
DESCRIPTION Lori Shipman thought something was wrong when a persistent cough would not go away. A chest x-ray led to a bronchoscopy, and...
Oct 5, 202119 min read