Saved By The Scan Shared Stories

My name is Linda and I am a 60-year-old wife, mother and grandmother. I want to shout from the rooftops how low-dose lung screening saved my life.

My primary care doctor ordered a scan for me many years ago, after I had been smoking for about 40 years.

My husband, Mo, was very fortunate that seven years ago his primary care doctor was aware of the screening for lung cancer for high-risk individuals.

This is a message for former smokers who think, like I did all these years, that you beat lung cancer by quitting their nicotine habit.

I quit smoking in May 2018 and started getting yearly lung cancer screening scans in November 2018; they never showed any problems with my lungs.

A random flyer in the mail, in 2016, advertising “Body Scans” for a reasonable price started my cancer journey. 

I started receiving low-dose CT scans in 2015 because my insurance began covering them, and my primary care physician strongly recommended I get them.

Wow I don’t even know where to start other than I am the perfect advocate for low dose lung screening as it saved my life.

I’m writing today to share why getting a CT lung scan is so important.

I smoked cigarettes, on and off for 40 years. At my annual physical, my primary doctor, said I should get scanned. He saved my life by doing so.

I was screened on my own, as I had been a smoker for 38 years, having quit for eight at that time. My cancer was caught at stage one and I had the top lobe of my lung removed.

I got screened last week with a low dose CT and it showed Stage-1 Emphysema.

I am now a very lucky lung cancer survivor. This is due to early detection that only required surgery and no additional treatments.

I am now a very lucky lung cancer survivor.

I was recently diagnosed with lung cancer (carcinoid tumor) and had 1/3 of my lower left lung removed in May, 2024.