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My name is Carl Heltzel and I am a PhD chemist, writer, and author. About 13 years ago, I was helping my mother in her garden when she had pain in her chest.

I learned that I have severe asthma after my mom passed when I was 18. I've been struggling with it so much and it just seems hard to manage. I...

I don’t know what I would do without the Affordable Care Act. I went years without insurance, simply because my employer did not offer it. Th...

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My primary doctor and I decided I needed to get a scan since I started smoking at the age of nine! So at the age of 54, in 2016, I got a low dose CT Scan.

I had a slightly heavy feeling in my chest and I wasn’t sure what it was. I thought perhaps it was a panic attack, even though I was not anxious about anything. I did not have a constant heaving feeling, I would only feel it occasionally.

"Smoke-Free Law" in the apartments! This makes no sense: "Smoking law in the apartments" "Grand Father’s" apart...

On February 12, 2021, I was diagnosed with stage three squamous lung cancer. It impacted my life in many ways.

Hello, my name is Hannah and on August 16th 2021, I lost my mother, Diane Michele Reister, to lung cancer.

I was hospitalized in 2015 for being unable to walk for more than a few feet without having to stop and catch my breath. I was immediately placed in the cardiac critical care ward with a heart monitor attached 24/7 for 8 days.

Today is the first day of November. So I decided that today I am going to talk about why November is and should be so important to everyone.

Hi! My name is Dian and I am a lung cancer survivor thanks to a low-dose CT scan.