Finding Hope With Inoperable Lung Cancer

Changing the Outlook

Innovations for inoperable lung cancer like CT-scan-guided radiation and immunotherapy may soon be combined to fight lung cancer more effectively.

Expert View

Understanding Your Treatment Options

Most cases of lung cancer are deemed inoperable. But that doesn’t mean incurable. There are many effective treatments, depending on tumor type.

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What I’ve Learned From My Patients

A pulmonologist describes how, though lung cancer may remain inoperable, targeted therapies and early screening have changed the game.

Meet Your Care Team

The patient is the leader, says oncologist Akansha Chowdhary, MD, but their care team can include a pulmonologist, nutritionist, and more.

Optimize Your Treatment

There are more treatments than ever for inoperable lung cancer. Here’s how to make your therapy work toward its fullest.

THE FUTURE OF LUNG CANCER

Watch as WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte, MD, and other experts discuss the latest in treatments and research.

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My Experience

Decision-Making With Inoperable Lung Cancer

Lung cancer isn’t always about smoking. For Leah Phillips, radon caused her inoperable lung cancer. Learn how targeted therapies brightened her outlook.

How My Care Team Has Helped Me

If you have inoperable lung cancer, you rely on your lung cancer care team. Here, one patient explains why finding the right one is so important.

When Cancer Holds On

Diagnosed with inoperable cancer, Bonnie Bishop-Ulrich was on a mission, and she wasn’t alone. Love is knowing that your battle is their battle, she says.

Advocacy

An Extra Set of Hands With a Heart

Tom Ziegler hasn’t missed one of his wife’s oncology appointments. He’s a big help, whether it’s in the garden, the kitchen, or at an advocacy event.

Focus on the Mental Impact

Physical impacts of inoperable lung cancer are widely discussed, but the mental impact is not. Arif Kamal, MD, shares why it’s key and how to find help.

‘Anyone With Lungs Can Get Lung Cancer’

A three-time lung cancer survivor, activist Terri Ann DiJulio says patient voices aren’t loud enough in the medical community. How is she changing that?

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Support and Planning

Doctors not only help patients and their families understand their cancer and the treatments available, but support them through emotional distress.

Advocacy

One Day, Hour by Hour, With Lung Cancer

Elizabeth de Jong outlines her day from dawn to dusk, not only as she treats her lung cancer, but advocates for it, too.

Nurse's Perspective: The Unknowns of Treatment

Inoperable lung cancer treatment is less likely to cause hair loss that people associate with chemo. Short-term fatigue, nausea, and changes in mood or sexual function are more common but manageable.

My Experience

Advice That Helps, Advice That Hurts

A non-small-cell lung cancer survivor and advocate shares the words that helped and hurt her the most.

How to Mentally Handle It All

Feeling anxious or afraid with inoperable lung cancer is completely normal. Here are steps you can take to ease your stress.

My Experience

The Emotional Side I Didn't Expect

Find out how one woman has navigated the emotional ups and downs of life brought on by inoperable lung cancer.

Advocacy

Make Treatment Work for You

A lung cancer advocate shares how to make the most of treatment and manage side effects.

Advocacy

Live Your Best With Inoperable Lung Cancer

Kernels of advice from advocates, survivors, and medical experts to help you live a better, less stressful, and more hopeful life with lung cancer.

My Experience

A Day in My Life

A woman diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer recounts how she maintains the normalcy of her family and work life while also adjusting to the new normal of living with lung cancer.