My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The diagnosis was immediate: Masses matting the lungs and deforming the spine. Cancer. In my neurosurgical training, I had reviewed hundreds of scans for fellow doctors to see if surgery offered any hope. I'd scribble in the chart 'Widely metastatic disease - no role for surgery,' and move on. But this scan was different: It was my own.
I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.
If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.
If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.
About a quarter of lung cancer cases occur in people who have never smoked. One cause may be another potential carcinogen: fumes from frying.
When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.
I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.
I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'
The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I'd probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect.