Natalie Dubs passed her 10th cancer anniversary in May 2024.
It’s a significant milestone for any person living with lung cancer. Natalie is living proof that with research, the right testing and available medicine together with knowledgeable and well-resourced clinical management lung cancer with brain metastases can be treated to become a chronic disease which extends patients’ lives with excellent quality of life.
Thanks to advancing clinical research and clinical trials as well as Natalie’s oncologist’s forefront knowledge in lung cancer treatment, she has been living well while managing the sides effects caused by successive treatments for NSCLC medicine that she has been through. While making adjustments in daily life where needed, and with her husband’s and family’s support, living with cancer hasn’t stopped Natalie from doing what she wants to do.
Natalie has experienced various jobs that she wanted to try; bought a unit and renovated it; got a cheeky dog named Taicho as well as travelled overseas for holiday many times. Since diagnosis Natalie has also found many hobbies that she enjoys very much and is still doing everyday. There’s a proverb that helps her everyday: “to get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.”
Six years ago, Natalie had a brain surgery and donated her resected brain tumour to research in order to help comparative studies into testing and resistances to medication developed over time. This testing showed that with the comprehensive genomic information, the best medicine, if available, can be selected.
Natalie’s wish is for “everyone going through this disease to have an opportunity to live their life, conquer their dreams, have more time with their loved ones, build a family or grow old with their families.”
Research has given Natalie 10-years of life and she know that inspiring clinical research is the key to saving lives.
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