Lung Cancer

When lung cancer spreads beyond the original tumour in the lung, it is called metastatic lung cancer.

Small cell lung cancer doesn’t get talked about as much as the other kind.

You've been diagnosed with lung cancer, or you're being investigated for it, and someone has asked you to do a breathing test.

Most people think of thyroid problems and lung cancer as entirely separate concerns. Two different organs, two different specialties, two separate conversations with two different doctors.

Most lung cancers are found late. Not because doctors miss them, and not because patients are careless.

Stage 4 lung cancer means the cancer has spread beyond the lung where it first developed. One of the places lung cancer can spread is the brain, which can understandably feel frightening for patients and families.

If you've landed here, you're probably looking for a straight answer.

When someone is diagnosed with lung cancer, it is natural for relatives to wonder whether the disease could run in the family. This question can feel especially worrying if more than one person in the same family has had cancer, or if the diagnosis occurs in someone who has never smoked.

Most people leave a diagnosis appointment having heard both words. Stage. Grade. Sometimes in the same sentence. Often without much of a pause between them.

It's one of those questions people type into a search engine at 11 p.m., usually after a few weeks of unexplained pain that hasn't shifted. And once you've typed it, you're either reassured or sent further down a rabbit hole of worst-case scenarios.

Let's try to do this properly, shall we?

A diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer often brings one overwhelming question: what does this mean for my future?

Chemotherapy is not given in the same way for every patient.