I have lost special people to breast cancer. Heck, I may wind up with it myself. So, as a lung cancer advocate, please don’t get me wrong. Breast cancer awareness and funding is hugely important. However, the latest breast cancer awareness campaign with Kentucky Fried Chicken, has prompted me to finally blog about it. It’s…
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Earlier this week, you may have seen this story on ABC News: The Impact of Peter Jennings: Five Years Later Lung cancer death rates have fallen since the anchor revealed his fatal illness. As a former reporter and now lung cancer advocate, when I saw this story, I about fell out of my chair. It…
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“I am a member of the cancer club. You aren’t drafted.” Sam Donaldson – Former ABC News White House Correspondent With his trademark energy, candor, wit and hairdo, former ABC News White House Correspondent Sam Donaldson spoke to a packed house of fellow “cancer club” members and/or their loved ones at the American Cancer Society…
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Believe it or not, you will actually hear a little known, but big fact about lung cancer, on a hit prime time television show this Sunday night. The words will go by very quickly, as Desperate Housewives character Mrs. McCluskey, played by Kathryn Joosten, celebrates the fact that her lung cancer surgery was successful. On…
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