Lung cancer and its treatment may cause physical changes in your body. These changes can be very difficult to cope with and may affect the way you feel about yourself. You may have symptoms such as a cough or breathlessness. We have a page about coping with breathlessness. Surgery may cause scarring and you may have pain in the area for some months afterwards. Such body changes can affect your self esteem and the way you relate to other people, especially close family and friends.
Another problem you may have to cope with is feeling very tired and lethargic a lot of the time. You may feel very tired during and after treatment or if the cancer is advanced. There is information about fatigue and cancer and treating cancer fatigue in the section about coping physically with cancer.