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What - Inspire is a place where you can connect with people who share your health concerns and find information and advice in groups sponsored by organizations you know and trust.
Why - As a member you can use Inspire to let friends and family know how you're doing, contact others who share your health concerns, receive personalized updates and information about participating in surveys and clinical trials, and more.
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Why are we here?
- By Brian · Posted April 11, 2008
- Journal · 54 recommendations
- When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...
Support your group and raise awareness with badges
- By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
- Journal · 32 recommendations
- Hi everyone. We added a new feature today that you can use to support your groups and the organizations that sponsor them, and get the word out about the causes that are important to you. If you visit ...
Welcome from TeamInspire!
- By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
- Journal · 24 recommendations
- Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...
New feature - See what you've replied to
- By Walter · Posted April 25, 2008
- Journal · 21 recommendations
- Hello everyone. We just added a feature that many of you have requested - a list of all of the posts that you have replied to. To get to your list, all you need to do is: 1. Sign in 2. Click "Me" in the ...
Sometimes we make mistakes
- By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
- Journal · 18 recommendations
- Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...
Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- Journal · 17 recommendations
- Hello everyone, We're writing to let you know about a great new feature we'll be adding to Inspire in the very near future: guestbooks. This is a feature that many of you have requested, and we're very ...
New feature: video!
- By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
- Journal · 14 recommendations
- I am pleased to announce that we have updated Inspire to support video. You can now share a video of yourself, videos that you find inspirational or informative, and more. I've included one of myself ...
NSCLC - new life expectancy stats
- By debs322 · Posted August 22, 2008
- Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - Stage IV · 13 recommendations
- My husband, age 54, has Stage IV, NSCLC -adenocarcinoma. Upper left lobe, mets to left adrenal gland and right lymph node in neck (which was removed.) He has had 2 of 6 chemo treatments of carbo/taxol/avastin ...
So Disturbed by a Post I Read
- By SusanL1 · Posted July 4, 2008
- Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - General · 12 recommendations
- Hi All: I just read a post that I can't get out of my head. I am so disturbed by it because not only did it basically say in a roundabout way that if we smoked we deserve lung cancer, but also blamed ...
Welcome!
- By Brian · Posted March 13, 2008
- Journal · 12 recommendations
- I am pleased to present Inspire 2.0 -- the result of many months of fun and hard work. We have made numerous improvements to your community, the vast majority of which are ideas that came from you! We ...
New feature - profile completeness gauge
- By Tasha · Posted June 12, 2008
- Journal · 9 recommendations
- Greetings from TeamInspire! I'm your friendly neighborhood designer, here to tell you about some new features. You might notice that today we revamped your member homepage - https://www.inspire.com/member-home.pl ...
What can you do in the fight against Lung Cancer
- By SaltyDog · Posted April 3, 2008
- Discussion in Survivor stories · 9 recommendations
- I have been on this site and its predecessor for two years. I have often read someone asking: HOW can we band together to fight lung cancer? I have a clear personal view but , in the interest of full ...
I like this new site!
- By sb · Posted March 19, 2008
- Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - General · 9 recommendations
- Gee, I feel like I must speak up because so many people are saying they don't like the site! I was on Dave Grant's original site, then the site changed to the one before this and now this. I think with ...
extensive sclc..any survivors past 2 years?3yrs?4yrs??
- By Daughter816 · Posted March 15, 2009
- Discussion in Small cell lung cancer · 8 recommendations
- Please tell me there are you miracles out there that are still going strong with extensive sclc???? Anyone in remission??? I need my Dad and he just began the battle,he's doing ok,feels good and no reaction ...
My 'BWP' will never be forgotten
- By tkitts · Posted November 10, 2008
- Journal · 8 recommendations
- I am sending a quick post becaouse I have not yet said how much the LCA site gave Pat Hope and others. I remember finding this site while she was in the hospital Jan. 07 and telling her that she should ...
New feature - additional reply notifications
- By Walter · Posted May 5, 2008
- Journal · 8 recommendations
- Hello everyone. We just added a new feature to help you follow the conversations that you are participating in. You will now get a notification whenever someone replies directly to one of your replies ...
I need your help.....
- By D1 · Posted March 11, 2008
- Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - General · 8 recommendations
- If we have ever connected.....If I wrote to you or you wrote to me.....if we shared advice, fear, ideas, hope, kindness, resources, encouragement, humanity, may I ask you to please, please say a prayer ...
Dirty Little Secret...for ksep
- By stage4survivor · Posted June 26, 2009
- Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - General · 7 recommendations
- Most of you know me from this forum, you can read my journal and my posts, I really don't hold back much but, there is something I have never discussed with anyone and certainly never posted here because ...
You decide what you want to do after this true story!
- By cuddles53 · Posted June 9, 2009
- Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - Stage IV · 7 recommendations
- Hi, I am writing this as something came up today to fill me with so much hope, it also brought back many of my cancer journey memories, I was answering a post to someone on here, and remembered this woman ...
Ten Years!
- By KatInNM · Posted March 25, 2009
- Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - General · 7 recommendations
- Yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of my diagnosis of inoperable stage IIIB NSCLC, adenocarcinoma, 7x8 cm tumor. At the time, I didn't think I would live a year, much less 10, and for the last 9 I've ...