Lung Cancer

As a professional poker player, Jim Petzing may have bet against receiving two cancer diagnoses in three years. But the retired marketing strategist, a lifelong non-smoker, survived neck cancer treatment in 2014, only to hear in 2017 that the dry cou

My Mom, Cathy Bluey, was insistent that Thanksgiving was coming and she needed to make her pumpkin pies. Sadly, the date was Dec. 19, 2013. The next day, after her MRI revealed gray areas of concern, our healthy wife, mom and nana was diagnosed with

After neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, of California, received a diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer in May 2013, he began to write about his illness, and the process of being sick, as a patient rather than a doctor. “When Breath Becomes Air,” published 10