LUNG FORCE Heroes
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Joseph M. 2021 will mark 15 years since my father, Vito Salvatore Mannino, succumbed to lung cancer.
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Jorge A. The air might kill us! I said the air we breath may kill us.
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Joni C. On April 7, 2015 my family changed forever. My dad was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer, the most aggressive form of lung cancer.
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John S. I was first diagnosed on Valentine’s Day 2019 with stage 3b NSCLC.
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John H.
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John H. I was selected for a program to take a chest X-ray once a year starting in 1984. In 2002 the x-ray showed I had cancer in my right lower lung (small cell). I was operated on in March of 2003, the lower lobe of right lung was removed. My wife said the
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John H. My story, as it were, started when I found blood in the sink while clearing my throat one morning in February of 2014. It alarmed me more because a friend of mine had recently spent several days in a hospital because of pneumonia.
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John F. My name's John and I quit smoking in 2007. I had smoked a pack a day for almost 30 years up to that point. In early 2019, my wife and I read an article about low-dose CT scanning. Knowing first hand from experiences with relatives how horrible cancer
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John C. I am a Vietnam vet. In the summer of 2009, I was being diagnosed for gall bladder stones when an alert radiologist noticed a "suspicious area" in the lower lobe of my right lung while reading a CT scan that was focused on my gall bladder.
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John B. I don't have cancer, but I hope I never will. I have seen firsthand how painful and devastating cancer is not just for the person dying, but on family members, children, parents, siblings, friends and other relatives.
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John A. In April 2013, an on the job injury to my left shoulder resulted in multiple X-rays, one showed a spot on my left lung.
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Joe V.
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Joelle R. My sister's mother was diagnosed with lung cancer last year (2015) and passed this month (August 2016).
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Jody S. Three and a half years ago, I lost my husband of 35 years to idiopathic familial pulmonary fibrosis. He was 56 years old.
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Jody M. My mother is battling lung cancer at the moment. She is in stage 1 right now and it is a hard road to watch a loved one sick from this awful disease.
