LUNG FORCE Heroes
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Regina B. I started smoking at 17 and smoked for the next 18 years. I quit in April 2007, at the request of my 12 year old daughter.
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Jenny W. My lung story is multifaceted. I have served as a minister for over twenty years.
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Nancy S. Hearing the word cancer is scary – hearing the diagnosis of lung cancer was terrifying.
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Monique F. It was the summer of 1979. I was 4 years old and my maternal grandfather, daddy as we called him succumbed to his battle with lung cancer.
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Lizzie B. August 2015 changed our lives forever: my mother, Candice Warren, was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.
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Nelson C. My Dad and I lost my mom to lung cancer.
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Alonzita H. On February 12, 2021, I was diagnosed with stage three squamous lung cancer. It impacted my life in many ways.
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Portia B. “Portia, I want to do this.” These were the exact words from my mother (Sharonne L. Lopez) as she handed me the flier from the counter.
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Nancy l. It began when my primary physician ordered a CT scan to determine why I was having pelvic pain.
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Sam A. My name is Sam Akers, and I reside in Augusta, Georgia, with my wife and daughter, who is in her first year at Georgia Southern University.
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Melodee M. My lung cancer journey began on December 8, 2018 with a cough.
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Leanne W. Had my Dad, Leon Lee Wheeler, survived his NSCS lung cancer diagnosis, he would have turned 84 on March 1st.
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Jennifer C. My name is Jennifer Chikoyak. I have spent the last 18 years working to educate my fellow Alaskans about the health harms related to tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke because of my Grandma Shirley.
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James B. My lung cancer story starts with me being born to a mother who smoked during pregnancy. I was exposed to secondhand cigarette smoke up to the age of 18.
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Elizabeth S. I was a healthy mother of three, a wife, a Navy veteran, and a practicing Nurse Anesthetist of 37 years. My life abruptly changed on November 17th 2017. While at work I developed chest and neck pain.
