A car accident when she was just 34 years old quite possibly saved Yovana Maria Portillo’s life. Many times, lung cancer symptoms do not appear in the early stages of lung cancer. Instead, most lung cancers are diagnosed in
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Toward the end of 2015, Tabitha Paccione developed a cough. Because she was a first grade teacher, and first-grade students tend to be little petri dishes, she - and her doctor - assumed it was just a cold. The
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Like many other lung cancer patients, Terri Conneran’s road to diagnosis did not follow a direct route. For the entire summer leading up to her diagnosis in January 2017, she’d been under the weather. First she was told her
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After Demanding Tests, a Shocking Lung Cancer Diagnosis Ask anyone who has battled lung cancer and they will tell you the experience changed their life. No matter the circumstances, the avalanche of tests, treatments, research, and planning can leave
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28-Year-Old Faces Small Cell Lung Cancer Diagnosis Back in 2006, special education teacher Montessa Lee didn’t think too much about the intermittent pain she was experiencing in her chest. It wasn’t until her cousin insisted, in fact, that she
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A shocking Stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis January 2014 was Harris Watkins’ final semester of college. When he told his mom, Patty about a job interview in Nashville - a three-hour drive from his hometown of Atlanta - she
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It’s been five years since Lisa Goldman, lawyer turned fitness instructor, received her lung cancer diagnosis. She was in fantastic shape; teaching spin, pilates and various other classes in Silicon Valley when she developed a persistent cough. For some
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A Cat Scan Reveals the Unthinkable After years of working as a bartender in Las Vegas, 38-year-old Lysa Buonanno decided to go back to college to train to be an x-ray technician. When her back started to bother her,
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A personal trainer with a bothersome cough 56-year-old Frank McKenna has been a personal trainer for over 20 years. At the time of his diagnosis in July 2016, not only was he in top physical shape, he knew his
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Shelly’s diagnosis It was near the end of the school year when 40-year-old music teacher Shelly Engfer-Triebenbach found the short walk from her classroom to the school office left her exhausted and out of breath. Prompted by her colleague
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