ALK-positive lung cancer wasn't at all in Tim's plans. For a year prior to his diagnosis, Tim Smith - firefighter, husband, dad to two young boys - had been plagued with fatigue. Used to functioning on very little sleep,
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Julie Carr was at work one day in the summer of 2016 when she experienced pain in her neck and shoulder that was so intense that she took herself to the emergency room. Her heart, which she suspected might
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Karen’s Self Diagnosis Last spring Karen Cunningham had a lot on her plate. A full-time high school teacher, she was applying to be the English department head, raising two teenage boys, and was in the middle of the heartbreaking
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Lung Cancer Diagnosis After Cycling Accident Falling off your bike can actually save your life. So goes the story of Frank Noll’s lung cancer diagnosis. Frank, an avid runner, hiker, and biker passionate about exercise, was on a training
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Facing her diagnosis Great nurses are caring, selfless and compassionate, and Tiffany Fagnani is no exception. At the time of her diagnosis, Tiffany was not only a nurse case manager, but also the primary caregiver to her younger brother,
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Terry Gillespie was no stranger to sinus infections. Every year she found herself with one which, once treated with antibiotics, went away. Toward the end of 2003, however, she went to the doctor with what she thought was a
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The weight of a family history of lung cancer From the time she was a child, Jill Feldman knew more about lung cancer than the average bear. Two of her grandparents – her mother’s mother and father’s father –
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Everyone should be advocating for lung cancer research. 1 in 15 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with lung cancer in their lifetime. Ivy Elkins is one of those people - read her story. No one gets elbow cancer
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From Oprah Magazine, April, 2018: The disease that used to be a death sentence isn’t necessarily so anymore. Some women are managing it—and even thriving. When Linnea Olson was told in June 2008 that the cancer she’d been battling…