Stress from thoughts about your future when you have an illness like lung cancer

It is natural to experience stress from thoughts about your future when you have an illness like lung cancer. Will you die? What will happen to your family? It’s also natural to want to know your prognosis, so you can continue to live your life as normally as possible or to make plans for whatever lies ahead. Your prognosis, which may change over time, depends on such factors as:

Type of lung cancer
How far lung cancer has spread
How aggressive the tumor is
Your age and overall health
The treatment you receive

Keep in mind that it is very difficult to truly predict how you will respond to a given therapy.