Three Years ago today, I got the call that a CAT scan, conducted for another purpose, had discovered a 5cm lump in my chest that looked like lung cancer. That ranks as a bad day. Just over two years ago I got the news that cancer had returned and spread to my bones : that was also bad day. There have been a number of days since then in the "not so good category. " But here I am, three years later, stage IV for most of that time, and still feeling quite well, thank you. This is not a boast: it is just my personnel testimony that the bleak "numbers" we all see on survival time, do not apply to you! You can can fight for a better outcome and the longer you win, the more likely it is that science will come through with your cure.
I have been lucky and blessed in some many ways that I lose count. I just started my fourth Chemo regimen and am hoping, as always, that this may the one that works. I have found a brave new community of friends, this community, and my caregivers. And I have found, in Lung Cancer, a cause that warrants my best efforts to win a "fair shake" from our governments and the Public Health community. I may not win fight either, but it is a cause well worth the battle.
Bottom line: No one deserves lung cancer. Lung Cancer deserves funding and Public policy support.
It will only get that support if we all demand it from our elected representatives.
Phil C
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