A Lil Lytnin' Strikes Lung Cancer

Today marks cycle 8 of my every-three-week chemo schedule. I’m tolerating it pretty well, I’m happy to say. The antiemetics work wonders, an...

I had scans following two cycles of chemo and it seems that the medicine is working its magic. The cancer has been knocked back in my lungs ...

A lot happened last week. In a nutshell, I’m out of my clinical trial, and I spent 4 days in the hospital dealing with malignant fluid arou...

I successfully passed all the tests and got accepted into the study! There is a weird sweet spot you have to hit in order to qualify for a c...

This belief has driven how I respond to stressful situations throughout my life. When I was pregnant with our first child, I took every cl...

Since this is my last cycle with my first-line chemo triplet (carboplatin/alimta/avastin), I thought I would give a little more detail about...

On Tuesday I am due to have cycle #6 of this chemo cocktail (carboplatin, avastin, alimta), the second of my "bonus rounds." For s...

I am realizing that I have been, perhaps, too delicate in describing my health situation. People keep asking me questions that indicate tha...