At 28, Emily Taylor had a persistent wheeze and cough. Her doctor told her it was asthma, but Taylor wasn’t so sure so she requested a lung scan. “When we did, we saw that there was some sort of a haziness in the right upper lobe of my right lung,” Taylor said. A CT scan… Read More

Many people think of lung cancer as a disease of older people, but lung cancer does occur in young people. The public was reminded of this when Dana Reeve – wife of Superman and a never smoker – died from lung cancer at the age of 44. Of concern is that lung cancer in young… Read More

Natalie DiMarco’s only obvious risk factor for getting lung cancer was having lungs. DiMarco had been experiencing respiratory problems for months in 2010, but her doctors just assumed the mother of two had allergies. By the time she learned she had lung cancer, the disease had spread into her lymph nodes and reached the membranes… Read More

Guests: Bonnie Addario (Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation), Gabby Wilson (Child Lung Cancer Survivor), Dana Wilson (Gabby’s mother). 450 men, women and children die every day from lung cancer. That’s a jumbo jet crash of death’s per day! Not all are smokers, but that is the stigma for funding lung cancer research and new… Read More

Friend was inspired by Cal athlete’s lung cancer battle By Brittany Harrison/ Contributing Writer What can you do with your lungs? A lot. That’s what my sister, Kelcey Harrison, set out to prove when she left New York City on July 30 to run across the country to San Francisco. She completed the journey, known… Read More

Dec 11, 2012 2:19 PM ET | By Sarah Spain A couple of Saturdays ago, while you were watching college football or out buying a Christmas tree, 24-year-old Kelcey Harrison was running the last 20 miles of a 3,500-mile “jog” from Times Square to her hometown of San Francisco. Harrison, who graduated from Harvard, where… Read More

By Marianne Magno Despite common misconceptions, lung cancer isn’t just a disease for smokers. One in five American women who contract lung cancer this year will be non-smokers. To raise awareness and funds for this disease, and to honor a friend who lost her battle to lung cancer at only 22, Kelcey Harrison, a 24-year-old… Read More

Harvard graduate Kelcey Harrison decided to take action after losing a friend and classmate to lung cancer. Kelcey is running from New York to San Francisco to not only raise awareness and fundraise for research efforts, but to extinguish the myth that only heavy smokers fall victim to the disease. WATCH NOW

The Courage of Jill Costello Chris Ballard, November 29, 2010 After a promising junior season as a coxswain at Cal, she learned she was in the late stages of cancer. The next year was her best. Next spring the NCAA women’s crew season will begin again. On lakes and rivers across the country, fleets of… Read More