Stephanie Williams
Meet Stephanie Williams, the TikTok Star With Lung Cancer, whose goal is to provide a personal picture of her cancer with humor and humility. In March of 2021, Stephanie Williams had a mild cough with some wheezing. She assumed…
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Brandi Bryant
In the months leading up to her lung cancer diagnosis, Brandi Bryant had a persistent cough. Sensing something was amiss, she scheduled an appointment with her primary care physician, but never thinking this nagging cough was lung cancer. Brandi…
Yovana Portillo
Yovana Portillo was just 34 years old when she was in a car accident that quite possibly saved life. Often lung cancer symptoms do not appear in the early stages of lung cancer. Yovana and her sister had an…
Terri Conneran
Terri Conneran was diagnosed in 2017, years before the first FDA approved precision treatment for her specific biomarker, KRAS. But, thanks to research, there were other effective treatments that help Terri live with lung cancer. Now she is a…
Dr. Sydney Barned
Dr. Sydney Barned is a doctor of internal medicine and a hospitalist. Since the onset of Covid, she has been a staple on the oncology unit of Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, MD. The idea that doctors can…
Shelly Engfer-Triebenbach
When rural Minnesota music teacher Shelly Engfer-Triebenbach started getting winded while doing the Hokey Pokey with her students, she knew something was wrong. She went to a doctor who gave her antibiotics for what was initially diagnosed as pneumonia.…
Patty Watkins
Patty Watkins loves being outdoors. She’s an avid gardener. She walk miles a day on the streets and trails of her neighborhood with a group of friends. It was strange then, for the healthy 57-year-old woman to notice that…
Montessa Lee
In 2006, Montessa Lee, a vegetarian and never-smoker, had Small Cell Lung Cancer. She was 28 years old. Treated with chemotherapy and radiation simultaneously, after six treatments, her scans were clean. Today, “survivorship team” follows her closely. After being…
Lisa Goldman
Lisa Goldman, lawyer turned fitness instructor, was in fantastic shape; teaching spin, pilates and various other classes in Silicon Valley when she developed a persistent cough that led to her lung cancer diagnosis. By the time of her diagnosis…
Jill Feldman
Since she was young, Jill Feldman has carried the weight of her family’s extensive history of lung cancer, prompting her own early detection and treatment. Jill’s resilience against her ongoing diagnosis and her inspiring ability to live life with…