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Spotlight: Lois Green
Lois Green of East Greenbush, New York went to NYC to participate in the ING NYC Marathon for all the right reasons. She and her team trained hard and fundraised non-stop to get to the marathon and to...
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It’s what we do next that matters
My name is Alan Rader. I live in the country about 15 miles northwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer at the age of 59. Like many survivors I’ve come to know, I...
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Thankful for Early Detection
On March 24, 2005, at 46 years old, I was diagnosed with Non-Small Cell Adenocarcinoma Lung Cancer. There were no symptoms. Because of chest pain on my right side, I went to the emergency room on...
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Team Making It Jake
It’s great to be a part of Run As One every year. It brings it around full circle—everything my family and I have learned about lung cancer and our commitment to helping other families facing the...
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Father’s Day
As June rolls around again this year, I can’t help but be reminded of Father’s Day, especially since we’re bombarded with reminder Tweets, Facebook ads, and of course men’s apparel offerings across the...
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LUNGevity volunteer Len Schwartz
This will be the seventh year that Len Schwartz has walked with LUNGevity for lung cancer research and awareness in New York City. Len recently chatted with LUNGevity about how he has been affected by...
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Advocate Anne Gallagher
Anne Gallagher brings a deep understanding to her work as a patient navigator at a cancer institute in her hometown because she has been living with lung cancer for 11 years. Diagnosed when she was...
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Lung Cancer Advocate Mary Ellen Hand
Mary Ellen Hand, RN, BSN, is the nurse coordinator at The Coleman Foundation Comprehensive Chest Tumor Clinic at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, where she has worked for 29 years. Mary Ellen...
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The promise of clinical trials
Heidi Henn, a program manager for the United States Navy, never thought she was someone at risk for lung cancer. Heidi wasn’t a smoker, so when she was diagnosed with stage 3b lung cancer in October...
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Spotlight: Survivor Pat Dunn
When Pat Dunn was diagnosed with lung cancer in October of 2003, she found no outside support for herself or her family. “My husband supported me every step of the way and my youngest son came home to...
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Teachable Moments
Melissa Crouse is an educator who teaches orchestra and chorus in a middle school and she is always looking for those “teachable” moments. Diagnosed in 2005 with non-small cell lung cancer, people are...
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Happy Father’s Day!
To those who are fathers, we celebrate you and thank you for being there for us, instructing, guiding and shaping us. To those who are still able to celebrate this day with your father, make the time...
View ArticleLUNGevity Advocate Dan Powell
2013 was the best year of my life. I was newly married to the girl of my dreams. We had a new house. I adopted her son and had major career advances (winning multi-million dollar grants for our...
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