Living with lung cancer - Introduce yourself & come say hi

Welcome to Connect my friend! Thank you for sharing your story. Happy dance from another old man!!
John

  Thank you for sharing this greAt article!

Yikes! I am a 10 year lung cancer survivor...with most of my left lung missing! It has been a journey!
I cannot tell you how painful it has truly been to fight back against the disease, the stigma, the shame & blame. I beg you to please think about
your options. In 10 years there have been so many new pathways to healing. There really are other safer risks that can be more fun. Respectfully,
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I have quit smoking, drinking and I eat a lot of brussel sprouts and I hope that's working. But, I have always said.....when it comes to the end of all of this I'm going to have a martini and a cigarette as I go out! It's one of the little motivations I hang on to in life but I wonder if that's really going to taste as good as I think! I agree that at a certain point whatever makes a person feel better is what they should have. My father died from cancer of the esophagus. He had been diabetic and had kept himself on a strict diet for many years. In his last months I prepared one of his favorite desserts each week, just for him and he enjoyed them all.

I agree- a sound diet is the best. I also am serious about people whose intentions are good, but give the wrong advice.

I so agree with you. I also believe that we now instinctively what are body's need- well most of the time. A day before my mom passed away she wanted a spoon full of whiskey or Scotch. I forget. I gave her one and my sister went nuts. I asked her if she was afraid of mom becoming an alcoholic. Anything that a dying patient wants should be top priority.

That's terrific.

My husband had pleural mesothelioma, considered terminal, and we were told to eat whatever he could tolerate and enjoyed, as nutritious as able. Once he began palliative chemo, eating became a significant challenge - nothing tasted good, small amounts of food made him feel full, general loss of appetite and fear of vomiting added to the burden. Needless to say, he lost a tremendous of weight, so I would think that what to eat depends alot on the type of cancer, the expected outcome, the treatments and how they affect the ability to eat and enjoy quality of life. He was never a big sweets eater but one of the last things he asked for was cornflakes with banana, soymilk and extra sugar. A dying patient has very different needs than one who is going to survive, I feel.

Thank you. I think this study suggests that we can always improve our diet and should when fighting cancer. We eat a lot of hidden sugars, salts and fats in our diet due to processed foods. I agree that thinking about it all the time can be detrimental to health but understanding what you're eating and how it affects our bodies....I believe that's an important step in getting and staying healthy. Combine that with proven medical advice from ones doctor and it can help. I actually needed to lose weight and after losing 30 pounds and changing my diet....all of my blood tests and other tests show marked improvement in my overall health.

Regarding diet and cancer all of my doctors have suggested a diet low in sugar, lots of vegetables (especially cruciferous ....oh my don't know that spelling), fruits, easy on red meat, etc. Guidelines to give your body the best chance of being healthy and non toxic (by avoiding pesticides and other carcinogens in food). It certainly can't hurt you. The changes I made to my diet have improved my health and well being a great deal and that makes it easier to withstand side effects from treatment and make my body stronger to fight cancer. No sense giving cancer a 'leg up' as it were. Since medical science doesn't actually have a clear picture on why some people get cancer and others don't, I think it's wise to give your body every chance to be as strong as possible.