Living with HER2 driven nsclc

[Denzie]

One man's story of living life with an HER2 driven lung cancer..

go2.org/blog/not-done-living/

[JanetteR57]

Thanks for sharing.

It's important to recognise the hope in this post and how far treatments have progressed since my diagnosis in 2011. The post also outlines how it's possible to live with cancer and get on with life in between treatment as so many do....thanks for explaining this as some unaffected assume life becomes nothing except thinking about the situation or giving up.

Having attended an all day lung cancer meeting yesterday for clinicians, commissioners and policy makers, with talks about rarer types of tumours (Thymic/thymoma) which are also now able to access different types of treatment and learning recently about the progress made in chest surgery, I wonder why none of these breakthroughs, progress and innovation about survivorship make the news? Then I stop and realise how negative mainstream media has become in recent years.

Never give up! The clinical nurse specialist who encouraged me to become involved in cancer research lived 4 yrs 4 months on clinical trials for stage iv EGFR mutated lung cancer back in 2015 - unheard of at the time but those targeted agents are now on 3rd or 4th generation and so many more mutations are now targetable - then immunotherapy came along but also the paradigm shift of using the strongest/most appropriate treatment first rather than saving it until later..... all the many developments continue to improve lung cancer knowledge, existing and potential treatments all the time.