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Memoirs of a Lung Cancer Survivor
By: Patricia A. Harley |
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I was diagnosed in January of 2001 with lung cancer at the age of 36. I was a foolish pack a day smoker unless I was out drinking, it could be 1 1/2 t...
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Why? It's my Daddy.
By: Angie Lamb |
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My Daddy began his fight in January of 2009; it was assumed it was just fighting a "cold that would never go away, possible bronchitis and/or pneumoni...
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No Symptoms
By: Jan O'Briant |
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On November 22, 2006 I received news everyone hopes they will never hear: positive activity in the right lung. This activity was found purely by acci...
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My Story
By: Nancy Gatschet |
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In July of 2006, I started to feel a lump in my throat, particularly when I lay on my back – it felt like something hanging up in my throat, which cau...
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Lung cancer at 19...
By: Tammy Coppedge |
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Nineteen and in love, college sophomore, 13-year competitive athlete...non-smoker. On December 4th, my daughter - Brittany Elizabeth Coppedge - was d...
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She Made a Difference
By: Linda Goss |
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She made a difference. Katie: diagnosed in March of 2007 at age 41 with NSCLC with a primary tumor of 9cm in her mediastinum. She passed on on Sunday...
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My Mom: Our Hero!!!
By: Karen |
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My story is in regards to my mother. Even though we lost my mom on June 22, 2007 from small cell lung cancer, she is an inspiration to me and others a...
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My Mom's a Fighter
By: Sonya |
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My mom was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer that spread to her brain in June 2007. She was at her winter home in Florida when she went to the doct...
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My Beautiful Mama
By: Susan Grizzelle |
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In March of 2006, my beautiful mom was diagnosed with stage IIIB lung cancer. This disease strikes without warning - my mom was 59 when she was diagn...
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Liver to Lung to Liver Cancer?
By: Anita Alphin for Richard Alphin |
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As a 50 year old, my husband was diagnosed in August of 2000 with lung cancer. He had just had a government chest x-ray that showed no symptoms about ...
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No Chemo or Radiation
By: Bonne Ross |
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On October 11th of this year, I will be celebrating my 6th year as a Survivor. My cancer was found by accident. I had a lump on my neck and it was L...
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Every Day is a Good Day
By: Liz Dols |
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I was diagnosed with stage IIIA lung cancer on October 24, 2006 at the age of 26. Since the time I learned to walk, and then run, I have been active ...
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Whaddya mean I have lung cancer? I'm 29!!!
By: Taindee Swords |
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My world turned-up side down, right side up, and round and round. It was a whirlwind of test after test, injections, treatments, and especially not kn...
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In Memory of Our Mother, Ellen Diagostino
By: Sandy Diagostino |
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We lost our mother to lung cancer Sept. 18, 2006. She was laid to rest on her 74th birthday. Our mother's life and legacy was one of immense courage...
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Two Family Members Too Many
By: Eileen |
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I lost my mom to lung cancer in 1996 and my grandma died of it in 2003. My mom was not a heavy smoker and grandma did smoke. Either way, no one deser...
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Lessons Learned from my Mother's Experience
By: Kristen Gallagher |
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My mother, Karen Gallagher, was diagnosed with squamous cell lung cancer in spring 1995, and died in our home on Christmas Day 1996, the day after my ...
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3-Year Stage IV "Never-Smoker" Survivor
By: Tom Cross |
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I was diagnosed in Dec. 2003, at age 49, with stage IV adenocarcinoma, (pathology from the vertebra), a primary tumor in th...
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My Mom Defied the Statistics! There is Hope out There!
By: Charla |
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My mother was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer in Nov. 2005. She had one tumor in her lung, and 3 had spread to her brain. She was told the lung tu...
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Faith, Hope, Love and Humor
By: Judith Waters |
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The beginning of 2003 found my breathing and respiratory system really acting up. It was a year of continual infections. I'd finish one anitbiotic a...
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A Miracle -- Beating the Odds
By: Jackie Reinhardt |
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I was diagnosed at age 48 with lung cancer (large cell) and my right lung was removed in July, 1990. Since my tumor was the size of a grapefruit and ...
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My Beautiful Friend, Jill Cotoia
By: DeeDee |
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This really isn't my own personal story of strength but it is more a story of remembering a beautiful woman. Jill Cotoia was a wonderful mother, an am...
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I Am Blessed
By: Ricki Kibby |
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I was diagnosed with Lung Cancer in November 2004, 3 weeks after losing my mother to Alzheimers. The biopsy showed a malignancy and it was a stage 3!
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Mom's Battle with NSC Squamus Stage 3
By: Shanna Wyatt |
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My mother is 53 years old and on January 9th 2005 went to the doctor because she felt like she had a pill stuck in her throat. This is where our night...
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Pamela's Story
By: Bob Pond |
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Day One
On December 12th, I asked Pam if I could join her at her Doctor's appointment. It was to obtain results from a routine chest x-ray. Th...
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There was No Effective Treatment in 1990...
By: Janet Savage |
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I was a happy-go-lucky 28 year-old when I lost my father to lung cancer after a battle of close to five years. Then just two months later came the pho...
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Just When You Think You're Okay.....
By: Lauren Kuhlmeier |
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So it was just a follow up CT scan. I knew I had this spot on my right lung, but I knew it was nothing and must have gone away like the spot on my le...
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Meg's Story
By: Leslie |
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My daughter, Meg, found out in December, 2004, that she was pregnant with my 1st grandchild. She was teaching Kindergarten and had gotten sick with an...
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My Sister's Courageous Fight with Lung Cancer
By: Carol Sayles |
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My sister Carol is the most courageous person I know. She was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lung, with tumors on her spine...
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Lung Cancer at 27
By: Kylie Johnston |
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My journey started with an ongoing cough, especially at night-time. I thought I was run down as I had been working hard in a new job. I was given anti...
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Lung Cancer???!!! No Way.
By: Susan Storm |
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My precious mother lost her battle with this hideous thief called cancer on May 13, 2003. She had been wobbly on her feet for months; it was decided s...
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My Motto: Live Your Life to the Fullest
By: Jamie |
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My story begins around September of 2004. I was teaching middle school band (Memphis City Schools) from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the afternoon.
A...
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My Sister, Laurianne
By: Lynda Koning Scherf |
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My sister Laurianne, died from lung cancer on Ocotber 22, 2005. The following is her story taken from a speech I gave in Santa Rosa, California on Nov...
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My Mother is the Strongest Person I Have Ever Known
By: Courtney Friedman |
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My mother, Kathleen Friedman passed away from lung cancer on January 14, 2003.
When my mother fractured her shoulder in October 2002 the x-rays fou...
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My Courageous Daughter
By: Henry Koning |
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My daughter was diagnosed with Non-small cell lung cancer - mucinous adenocarcinoma of the lung - two days after her son was born. She swam a mile a ...
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We Lost Our Dear Mother
By: Suzanna Fajardo |
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My mother, Elizabeth Dowidat, was a healthy 60 year old when we celebrated her big birthday in May of this year. She was very happy and full of life....
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Lung Cancer has Decimated My Family
By: Doris Taylor |
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My daughter was having severe back pains, and was off work for 3 months. Finally the doctor decided to do a MRI. Alas, she had lung cancer that had sp...
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I Am a Survivor
By: Karol DeStefano |
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In November of 1999 I was preparing for an unrelated surgery. Just before the surgery I developed what was thought to be pneumonia complicated by an ...
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In Memory of My Mother
By: Lynn L. |
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My Mother had not been feeling well beginning last summer (2004). She had been complaining of a variety of symptoms, including a constant "post-nasal...
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Information, Information, Information...
By: Annie |
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I lost my mom to lung cancer in April of 2002. She had just turned 60 in January. My mom was an ex-smoker, some 20+ years at the time. She suffered fr...
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With Faith, Hope, Love and Humor We Can Fight this Disease.
By: Judy Waters |
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I was diagnosed on Jan. 1, 2004 with a tumor larger than a golf ball in my right lung. After many tests it was proven to be small cell cancer. With ...
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What Symptoms?
By: Pam Moffitt |
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On August 24, 2003 I went to the doctor to have him sign off on a workers compensation claim because the muscle spasms I had experienced for 6 months ...
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An Unexpected Journey
By: Heather Saler |
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When I was diagnosed with Lung Cancer in January 2003 at the age of 33, I thought my entire world was ending. What had started out as a normal day e...
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A Survivor at 50 Years Young
By: Deborah Proven |
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I had been up coughing and plagued by sinuses a whole night. The next day I decided I would go to the doctor because maybe I had bronchitis. Being a...
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My Story as a Survivor
By: Diana Goldstein |
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I was diagnosed with lung cancer suddenly in June, 2004 after a seizure while running. I had no identification and I ended up in the emergency room u...
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I Want to Share my Story with You
By: Lori Monroe |
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I have stage IV lung cancer; bronchioloalveolar carcinoma. I was 42 years old when I was diagnosed, and my daughters were ages 10 and 13. I had been m...
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How my Mother's Lung Cancer has Affected Me
By: Emily Monroe |
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How has my mother having lung cancer affected me? Not an uncommon question to me. Especially since my mom is a very active patient advocate at Vande...
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Lung Cancer Took my Wife
By: Lincoln H. Mueller, Senior |
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My wife died of lung cancer on Thanksgiving Day, 2004. She was first diagnosed by our primary care physician as having an upper respiratory infection...
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Surviving Lung Cancer
By: Kathie Sorenson |
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Because I am a breast cancer survivor of 6 years, I see my oncologist every year. I have a chest x-ray and mammogram yearly also.
My routine chest...
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My Story
By: Judith Toscano |
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Prior to my diagnosis of Bronchoalveolar Carcinoma (BAC) lung cancer in January of 2001, I was confident that cancer was behind me. I was free to pur...
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God Doesn’t Pull You Through a Jam so You can Keep it for Yourself
By: Lea Sopkin |
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I had developed a cough that I described to my doctor as a “killer cough”. I had had this kind of cough many times in the past, but for some reason, ...
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Mom's Cancer
By: Anonymous |
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This cartoon strip detailing a woman's battle against large cell lung cancer as told by her son can be found at <...
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My Lung Cancer
By: Cecilia Izzo |
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In August of 2003 I became quite ill with pneumonia. Having been healthy most of my life this was rather odd. I was on antibiotics for a week and th...
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Know Your Own Body
By: Jessie Badillo |
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I could have been diagnosed earlier but several factors played into my delayed diagnosis. I knew that my body was starting to deteriorate as far back ...
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I Will not Stop Talking about Lung Cancer
By: Judith Levi |
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I have a chest X-ray every year as part of my yearly Ob/GYN check up, since I was exposed to TB as a child. I always test positive for TB, so never w...
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