As a lung cancer survivor, your experiences are in some respects unique, beginning with your symptoms. It’s important to note that he process of the discovery of cancer is, by most people’s accounts, associated with great emotional upheaval. There may be a few of us who are so highly evolved spiritually or who have lived so full a life that we accept a cancer diagnosis with equanimity, but this is not the case for most of us.
Your unique illness
Lung cancer, formally called bronchogenic carcinoma, is not one disease, but a collection of diseases that affect the same organ and often cause similar symptoms. It might be tempting to compare your experiences with others who have had lung cancer, but it would be best to avoid making uneven comparisons that might upset you, as is likely to happen if you don’t know the precise
types and stages of lung cancers being compared.
If someone else experienced a treatment failure, for example, you might assume that your treatment will fail as well. Please keep in mind that the variation in lung cancer types means that your experience with symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment might well be very different from someone else’s. [click to continue…]
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