Shared Stories
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Barbara P. My family had a most brilliant, compassionate, successful, Christian husband, father, & relative, named Jack Byrd. Jack lost his life entirely too soon to tobacco & chemical products such as these. He was a firm parent; but, very fair. He absolutely
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Barbara L. My husband was diagnosed almost ten years ago with stage 4 non small cell lung cancer. It is not a death sentence.
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Barbara C. Lung Cancer Tarceva mutation chemo
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Bailey G. My beautiful Mama's life was cut far too short due to a horribly misunderstood disease - lung cancer.
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Avis P. My name is Avis Corley Porter of Thaxton, MS in Pontotoc County. I am honored to be requested to write an article on "My Journey with Lung Cancer."
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Austin H. My Grandpa's original diagnosis for lung cancer was back in 2012. After fighting on and off, we received his final diagnosis of cancer around Memorial Day in 2017. He passed away in October of 2017.
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Ashley R. After enduring bouts of pneumonia and other debilitating respiratory issues, I was finally diagnosed in 2013, at the age of 32, with a pulmonary neuroendocrine tumor (NET).
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Ashley M. In October 2012, I was an average sophomore attending The Pennsylvania State University. Life was great; I had a wonderful boyfriend, great friends, and I was loving the college life.
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Ashley K. In August of 2016 my mom developed a cough that eventually caused her to go meet with her doctor. She was told that she had bronchitis, was given medication and sent home to rest. When her cough persisted she went back to her doctor and was then sent
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Ashley D. I was the full time caregiver for my grandmother. She was diagnosed on August 1, 2014 and passed away February 17, 2015.
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Ashley B. Victoria, 49, found out in mid-July of this year that she had stage four lung cancer. She fought hard to the end.
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Ashley B. My grandfather Robert Corzine passed away from stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer on November 24, 2012. His diagnosis of lung cancer changed and affected my life tremendously.
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Ashlee H. My name is Ashlee Harmon, I am a 17-year-old from Troy, Ohio and my life has been affected by lung diseases.
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Ashely K. So, my mom has always been the one to take care of family; the impervious one who could never get sick even if she tried...or so we thought. Moms are supposed to be the ones to take care of us, I assumed I would have at least 20 more years before I h
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April M. My story started a few weeks ago. My 85 year old grandfather has been having some breathing issues for a while and his primary physician wrote it off as "he's getting older and he's a former smoker."
