Lung Cancer

“Untreatable” is one of those words that nobody wants to hear..

A PET scan can provide valuable information when lung cancer is suspected or has already been diagnosed. But one question comes up frequently: how much can you rely on the result?

Lung cancer can be difficult to recognise from symptoms alone.

Being diagnosed with lung cancer during pregnancy creates an unusually complex situation. Decisions need to consider both the cancer and the pregnancy, and the safest approach may change considerably depending on how many weeks pregnant you are.

Lung cancer is strongly associated with smoking, but it can also develop in people who have never smoked.

A diagnosis of lung cancer brings a lot of unfamiliar terms very quickly. Non-small cell lung cancer. NSCLC. Staging. Biomarkers. Molecular testing.

Chemotherapy is a type of systemic cancer treatment designed to damage or destroy cancer cells, but it cannot always avoid affecting some normal tissues as well. This is most noticeable in healthy cells that naturally divide and renew quickly. As a result, patients may experience side effects such as tiredness, hair loss, mouth soreness, nausea, and a higher risk of infection.

Being told that lung cancer has spread is a lot to take in.

Let me start with something that comes up a lot.

Most people, when they hear the words "lung cancer," immediately picture a smoker. I understand why. Smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer. The association is not wrong. But it is incomplete, and in the case of adenocarcinoma, it causes real problems for some people.

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.