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So, like many others, I've experienced what is known as a spontaneous pneumothorax-collapsed lung.

Imagine how helpless you would feel if you had to watch your child struggle to stay afloat in the deep end of a swimming pool knowing you could not...

Thank you for being available and transparent, and honest. Our air quality is experiencing something unusual. 

I remember the day very well when we heard "We think it may be lung cancer." There was no way this could happen to my 53-year-old daddy. I felt hopeless, defeated, scared.

In the spring of 2017, my sister Meghan began having health issues. Meghan was a former Division I athlete who never took a sick day in her professional career, so when she started to have health issues, we were all surprised. 

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...

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.

After hearing my wife, Carol’s horrible cough for months on end, and watching her exhausted after bouts of coughing, I was sure if I never heard another cough again it would be fine.

Today is my lungaversary! A year ago today I underwent surgery to remove a tumor in the upper lobe of my right lung.

My name is Pamela. I'm a cancer survivor three times. In 2013, I had breast cancer. They found it early enough, it was stage 1.