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So Many Discoveries Yet To Be Made!

In 2005, when I was diagnosed with lung cancer, I immediately recognized the great need for awareness about uncommon lung cancer facts, early detection, and compassion for people impacted by the...

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Andrea Borondy Kitts: Lung Cancer Screening Might Have Saved Dan

I lost my husband, Dan, to lung cancer in April 2013. Dan had all the risk factors for lung cancer. He was a former heavy smoker, quit 11 years. He lost his sister to lung cancer when she was only 62,...

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Elizabeth Dessureault: Research Made the Impossible, Possible

My name is Elizabeth Dessureault. In April of 2015, I was diagnosed with advanced stage non-small cell adenocarcinoma lung cancer (NSCLC). As an otherwise healthy, non-smoking young adult, this news...

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Dave: Survivor and Cancer Research Evangelist

I remember the exact moment as if it were yesterday. I was out for dinner with friends when my cell phone rang. It was my doctor from Massachusetts General Hospital. I thought it was strange for him...

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K Latzka: Traditional Treatments Saved My Life

It’s not unusual to develop a cough during winter in New England, but mine wouldn’t go away. Hours after my doctor diagnosed acid reflux, I began coughing up blood. At age 46, I was diagnosed with...

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Ivy Elkins: Hope and Action through Advocacy

I was diagnosed with stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer on December 26, 2013. As a healthy, non-smoking woman in my 40’s, my neck pain and elbow stiffness was initially written off as caused by stress...

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Carlotta Occhiena: The Art of Living

On June 21, 2012, at 5 p.m., a warm summer day, my life totally changed. Before that day, I was an architect and worked in an art gallery in Torino. I was single. I lived alone with my dog and my job...

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Immunotherapy Saved My Life

February 20, 2015, is the day I received the news. I was 40 years old, a mother of two daughters, a wife and a daughter of a survivor. I was diagnosed with stage 3a non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)...

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My Mother’s Story: Through the Eyes of a Caregiver

My mom was a smoker; everybody who knew her knew that. It wasn’t until the day of her accident, November 4, 2015, that we even knew there was something going on. After undergoing surgeries for her...

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Why Lung Cancer Awareness is Important to Me

Lung Cancer Awareness Month is very important to me. I lost my uncle Benny and my dad to this horrible disease in September of this year and my aunt Phyllis back in 2016. This disease has no mercy....

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Emily – Together We Can!

Hello, my name is Emily, and this past March, my mom was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. My mom had been in and out of the hospital since October of last year, but the doctors insisted that she...

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Let’s Find a Cure

My husband Kevin was diagnosed with COPD about nine years ago. He got very sick with pneumonia and they found a nodule in his lung. It was biopsied and was found to be benign. No one ever told him to...

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The Story of Losing My Mother

On July 25, 2017, my mom went into have a biopsy done on her lung. As soon as the doctor went into her lung, her lung collapsed. The doctor inserted a tube and got it inflated. We thought my mom was...

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Three Time Lung Cancer Survivor

In December of 1986, I turned 41 years old. I had never had a full physical exam. In early 1987, I went to an internist for my first full physical. At the time, I mentioned that my father had died of...

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Keeping My Faith

I was diagnosed four years ago with stage IV lung cancer. I was devastated. I was told I had 12-18 months to live. I was a single mom with a seven year old at the time and had just turned 34. My life...

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New Target Medications, a Clinical Trial and Gratitude!

In 2011, my husband was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer at age 39. I was pregnant with our second child. He proceeded to undergo the approved standard treatment for that time. Unfortunately, he...

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Don’t Delay, Test for Radon Today

Most people don’t know if they are living with an invisible carcinogen–radioactive radon gas–in their homes, we surely didn’t until it was too late.  We were stunned and numb when the oncologist told...

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Roller Coaster of My Cancer

I was looking forward to retiring at the age of 60. Two weeks after my birthday, I had been a caregiver looking after patients in their own homes. Little did I know that it was me that was going to...

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Honoring My Parents

I lost my mom on February 10, 2017, and my dad on June 20, 2017 –  both to small cell adenocarcinoma and both in the right lung. They both ended up with brain mets, and this was a life changing year...

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They Say Life is a Journey

They say that life is a journey; some fly through life and some take the train of life. They say life is a journey that never ends. But the truth is that the journey called individual life, even if we...

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