Lost my dad to lung cancer, I miss you so much it hurts 💔

Due diligence on behalf of our own health isn't the only issue with early detection, there's also unnecessary appointments pushed out 6-8 months, cancelled appointments which require another lengthy wait, and doctors dismissing the patients concerns .

My husband died from lung cancer in 2017 the doctor told us that 80 percent of people with lung cancer never smoked

My mom had lung cancer and was smoker just heart breaking she pass away long ago. Stop smoking you will break someones heart when you die. I  miss her with sll my heart

And She always said before She was diagnosed that She felt like She was dying! 😢 ❤

GOD let us have her another 11 months. But my sister continued to smoke through out the entire time & smoking other things.😢

Im sorry but right now i cant tell you all yet about being with Her at the END because i will stary crying again. MY GOD IN HEAVEN I MISS HER TERRIBLY THAT I WANT TO BE WITH HER AGAIN, NOW!! 😢 ❤❤

I tried to get an appointment with a pulmonologist in the Los Angeles area.  Even with a referral from my PCP, designated urgent, it took 3 months to get an appointment.   I was breathing raggedly for months before that.   The medical profession has no interest in saving lives.

1. Persistent cough.
2. Shortness of breath.
3. Chest pain.
4. Hoarseness or voice changes.
5. Unexplained weight loss.
6. Fatigue
7. Coughing up blood.
8. Frequent lung infections.
9. Wheezing
10. Swelling in face or neck

Its Common in Smoker's.

I was just diagnosed with lung cancer. I have a consultation on Monday. I already have copd.

Also they only give Her a 25% chance to save Her because She was already in stage 3.

Really this is a wonderful and informative video that takes away the vagueness of what lung cancer is all about.  Thank you for sharing your expertise and the visuals are outstanding.

I have emphysema, my mom died of small cell lung cancer, my father died of non small cell lung cancer, he also had COPD. I've now been through my first bout of cancer, not lung.... yet, still waiting for that ball to drop. moral of this story don't smoke.... Also  wildfire smoke and vehicle pollution can cause lung cancer....


That being said these videos are a bit geared for hypochondriacs. And if you are sick doc's often treat you like you are a hypochondriac.

My precious Husband Stan passed away with Lung Cancer stage 4. 15th November 2025. Truly heartbroken. 😢💔

Docters blame all symptoms these days on anxiety and stress and prolong diagnosis thats why by the time you get diagnosed its too late

Don’t freak out if you have one or two of these symptoms. It’s easy to fall into internet illness scare. If you see your doctor regularly and share your symptoms with them you should probably be okay.

Helpful. This was a great short video with lots of information. Thank you so much for it. I can keep this video and always refer back to it now. Thank you so much again! Stay safe and have a great day⁉️🙏🏼😮🥺😷🤕🤑❤️🌹✌🏻👍🏼‼️

I got lung cancer several years ago, it took a year to get diagnosed because I stupidly took a job in the worst place on earth, Temple TX, and took a job at Scott and White Hospital.  I was coughing up blood and my 22-year-old provider, let's call her Misty although she pronounced her name Musty, and she just graduated as a physician assistant, which means she had less education as a nurse trained when she was a kid.  She said, when I asked for a chest CT "a little knowledge is dangerous " (I told her she should know all about getting very little knowledge) she told me "It is impossible to get lung cancer if you don't smoke", a lie, if you have lungs, you can get lung cancer.
    After being refused a real MD, I spent a half year petitioning the medical board.   When I finally got my way, the CT lit up like New Years.   I wound up eventually losing 3 lobes of lung due to Musty.
    You do not always lose weight.  You may have weird symptoms.  Musty told me it was normal to cough up blood.   I knew she was full of shit.  Maybe in Texas, which is filthy, but not in the rest of the country.  I continued to persist.  You should not be coughing all the time, and it should not be blood.
Keep fighting.  There are parts of the country that are totally ignorant.  I wound up nearly dying a few times.  I wound up homeless and dependent on oxygen.
   The same year a man who had abdominal surgery kept going back to his surgeon complaining of severe pain.  The doctor said he was DRUG SEEKING.  The Scott and White surgeon left an 8 inch steel retractor in this man's abdomen. Scott and White wrote him off as a drug seeker, but an independent CT scan (all lawyers in Temple TX where in Scott and Whities' friend list).  He had a honking 8-inch retractor in him.  How does that happen?  I worked in surgery 5 years.  Not in Texas though, in a State that counts instruments and sponges prior to closing the body.
Trust your instincts.   If I listened to "professionals" like a 22 year old non MD who is there, in TX in place of real MDs. I would be dead. (BTW, I had been an RN for decades at the time.  I spent 14 yrs in college.  Or more than twice as much as some doctors. I made them apologize.  My skilled surgeon, a man not from Tx, went to work as a professor in a better place.  I am not out of the woods.  Recently I started coughing up blood again.  I do not expect to survive this time.  I do not have enough lung.

Atlanta, GA