Patients Review on lung Cancer

Patients review on lung cancer is very important for those patients who have been diagnosed with different types of lung cancer recently. It is also important to know for those patients who wan to go under treatment. We have interviewed some patients who had lung cancer and some patients who still have. In this article you will know how to maintain your routine from real experiences of other patients.

I am sure that you all have heard about hypnosis treatment. Which is a psychological process of treating, anxiety, depression, and other physical critical condition like cancer. Question asked by many patients is

Can hypnosis helps lung cancer patients?

Kennith Masoon (previous lung cancer patient)

To the best of my knowledge, hypnosis can help lung cancer patients. The help most likely will not affect the disease. But it can be beneficial in tolerating the treatments for the disease, dealing with some of the unpleasant side effects of these treatments and sometimes it can help the mental outlook of patients.

It is important to acknowledge the fact that this kind of help is very important and meaningful in its own way.

Facing a life threatening disease is bad enough, but facing it full of discomfort, pain and fear is even worse. I do not mean to suggest that hypnosis will alleviate all of these issues. But for some people it has proved to be very helpful.

Just because something doesn’t look like traditional medicine, it doesn’t mean it can’t be helpful when dealing with an illness.

Kyrani Eade (got successful lung cancer treatment before)

Possibly, if suggestions can be made that do two critical factors:

1. convince the patient that something will address their problem, i.e., to create a placebo effect.

2. Any ongoing emotional reactivity can be addressed by resolving the underlying issue.

However why bother with hypnosis when you can have spontaneous remission. It is free, safe and effective.. but of course you need to understand what you are up against. I have started to blog about my cancers and what I discovered here: Victory Over Cancer

I have had cancer 8 times and I have had 8 spontaneous remissions.

The first one was from stage 4 ovarian cancer with mets to the uterus, cervix, bowel and both lungs. I left the area to get a second opinion. It was broken and the doctors said “nothing we can do for you”. I went on to have a spontaneous remission.

Returned to where I was living 10 years later and another episode but this time I saw that there were some issues, which I was able to resolve. Again I had a spontaneous remission.

Third one was ovarian cancer. This time I could see the foul games that were being played. I threw caution to the wind and used Vipassana or insight meditation, which I had mastered many years earlier, to see what was going on in my body. I was fortunate to observe cells leaving the ovary or in that vicinity and move to the bowel. From what I knew and what I discovered I was able to deliberately effect spontaneous remission.

So what is my experiences from previous cancer journey?

I had another 5 episodes after I took my activist work onto the net. But with each one I only discovered more and each time I was able to eliminate the cancer. I am now able to avoid cancer development and want to help others do the same.

It is not necessary for anyone to postpone or put off any treatment they wish to have. My method really entails an “ah ha” experience, a discovery, the realization that it is their own adverse bodily reactions to ideas that they have taken seriously. This realization is very powerful because the person stops reacting and the body returns to resting metabolism and health.

Lee Flores (Did not get result from hypnosis?)

I don’t think so. It helps in taking the pain off, but treating lung cancer will not help at all. Hypnosis will just calm your body but the cancer cells are still there. It won’t help kill the cancer cells at all.

Anny Hogarth

Hypnosis as a means of ‘treating’ people is a BIG yes. Hypnotherapy is a means of safely allowing a person to relax deeply to reach the state of trance as when almost asleep, when you are so relaxed and comfortable yet still aware of the environment around you. In this state the subconscious takes precedence over the ego and conscious awareness loses the main focus. In this state the person in trance is asked to look at the issue requiring treatment and explore ways they could see to solve their problem. Various techniques are used to elicit this discovery.

As an example, when I personally enrolled on my Clinical Hypnotherapy Degree, I was in recovery from a car accident where I had soft tissue and neural damage to my median nerve/shoulder. This meant I had lost the ability to touch my thumb with my index finger. After 10 minutes of discussion in trance I was able to do so and to visualize a means of calming and smoothing the median nerve. The medical profession had already told me I would have to live with the situation for life.

Since qualifying, I have successfully used hypnotherapy in the treatment of many, many different conditions with amazement at its efficacy.

Yes, hypnosis delivered by an expert and ethical practitioner, can be used to ‘treat’ a huge range of conditions from phobias, mental or childhood trauma, anxiety, pain relief and certain medical conditions etc.

The mind heals the body but sometimes needs to be encouraged to recognize the seat of the problem and find its own solution. The hypnotherapist can only assist by the use of a plethora of different techniques on the healing journey.

In this section we will review doctors opinion. When many patients asked if was there any alternative treatment for a stage IV lung cancer?

Gary Larson

Medical Director – Procure Proton Therapy Center

Stage IV cancers have a wide variety of prognoses with or without treatment. The majority are fatal within a few months to a few years. But some types may go many years without treatment. Many more stage IV patients survive long term with treatment, even when they are not cured.

There is a unique staging system for each type of cancer. For most, Stage IV means that the cancer has spread distantly from where it arose. For some staging systems, like the one used for Head and Neck cancers. It may be locally advanced or have spread to certain groups of lymph nodes and may still be curable.

Treatment may vary from simply taking a pill every day or a shot every few months, to a combination of radical surgery, multi-drug chemotherapy, radiation and hormone or immunotherapy. Different treatments may be given as months or years go by.

For some stage IV cancers, such as those still confined to the Head and Neck region, cure with radiation and chemotherapy is generally > 50%. Those which are stage IV due to distant metastases, cure is rare, but survival for several years is possible with treatment. Some, such as low grade prostate cancer with bone metastases – or breast cancer with only spread to the bone (not other organs), some patients may live over a decade. Patients with metastatic colon cancer to the liver may make it 5 years with treatment.

With respect to lung cancer

when someone is found to have a “solitary” metastasis based on imaging, there are usually innumerable smaller metastases too small to be seen with our available technology. If you treat the primary lung cancer and the known metastatic site, other lesions will probably show up in the future – but not always.

Patients with a well defined lung tumor that can be surgically removed or treated with Stereotactic Ablative Radiation Therapy along with a single brain metastasis (also treatable with open surgery or Stereotactic Radiosurgery) are sometimes the sum total of the disease present and are occasionally cured in this way. For patients without systemic symptoms who have a good performance status, we try to give them the benefit of the doubt. Other solitary sites where metastases are sometimes found include another part of the lung or the adrenal gland. Metastases to bone and liver are usually multiple even when they appear solitary.

Your oncologist will tell you what treatments they recommend – and maybe you’ll be one of those with long term survival – or even one of the rare patients that is cured.

Can lung cancer patients travel on an airplane?

H. Jack West

Seattle-Based Medical Oncologist, Founder: CancerGRACE.org

He said, patients who are fit enough to travel by a train or long car trip can usually travel by plane. They would need to have sufficient lung function to do OK at high altitude (potentially with supplemental oxygen) and be away from medical care for several hours.

The main issue, if, is that they can’t have had recent lung surgery or be at significant risk for a collapsed lung after having had recent procedures that could cause an air leak from the lung.

It isn’t true that you can’t be on chemotherapy, which poses essentially no danger to other people. Nor is it a problem if people have received standard external beam radiation.

Also, patients with many kinds of cancer, including lung cancer, are at increased risk for blood clots, and air travel can increase the risk of developing a deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolus in anyone, more so in a patient who has had blood clots recently.

That said, many patients with lung cancer travel by plane regularly, with no real issues.

In the above article we just have tried to cover patients review on lung cancer. What they had felt during cancer period, how they were treated. Experience may vary patients to patients do not think it will be same in every patients case. Before taking any medication or any steps consult with your doctor.

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