Website Showing the Face of Members of the Lung Cancer Community

  Several years ago, Christine Dwyer learned that her close friend Brad, a 31 year-old never-smoker, had advanced lung cancer.  He died in late 2005, and she went on to develop cancergrief.com, a website that she hoped could help people like her, feasturing news and discussions about treatments, coping, and other information. 

   In recognition of November as […]

“Scanxiety”

Recently one of our readers wrote about her “scanxiety”, the anxiety and fear she feel whenever it is time to have another scan that has the potential to show growth or progression of her disease process. There is not a cancer patient I know of who has not suffered this kind of […]

Thoughts on “The Last Lecture”

  There’s a book that’s making the circuit in the world in general, but it’s probably especially relevant here.   The Last Lecture, by Dr. Randy Pausch with very helpful editing by Wall Street Journal writer Jeffrey Zaslow, is a book based on the lecture last September by Dr. Pausch, a computer scientist and virtual reality […]