Robert Burkhart was a bitter man who was estranged from his family for many years before being diagnosed with lung cancer. Now that’s all changed. Click below to hear more.

Jerry Sorkin created “Breathe Deep DC,” a 5K walk to celebrate survivors, remember loved ones and raise money for lung cancer. Click below to hear more.

At every turn, patients who are seriously ill lose control of their bodies. Disease wreaks havoc on humans – lack of appetite, muscle wasting, depression, weight loss – the list goes on. And if all that weren’t enough, the treatment for the disease is often times equally insulting to the human form. Chemotherapy causes hair […]

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll, American Writer and Clergyman

The honesty, candor and significance of conversations among the living can pale in comparison to those among the dying. I am repeatedly struck by my patients’ inclinations to communicate with their friends and loved ones in ways they never did before they got sick.