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Lung Cancer
My Experience Is Going To Be What My Experience Is Going To Be
Sunil Dutta, a writer and a poet has found that accepting death, being curious rather than fearful helps in dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. He finds solace in Ghalib and Zauk. Sunil Dutta stared at a scan of his lungs.…
I Breathe, No More
Diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, author and neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi chronicles his illness and death in an emotionally moving book, When Breath Becomes Air, which is currently topping the New York Times bestseller list. Our editor…
Before I go - Time warps for a young surgeon with metastatic lung cancer
By Paul Kalanithi, M.D., a neurosurgeon and writer. Though never a smoker, he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in 2013. Paul died in March, 2015. He is survived by his wife Lucy and their daughter Cady. A few paragraphs that stood out for me…