Coping With Cancer

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Member Spotlight: Jeff Stibelman

*April 2025* Written by Karen LeBonte When he was diagnosed with lung cancer, Jeff Stibelman was told he’d live for 6 months, maybe a year. That was 4 years ago. Today Jeff is busy advocating for lung cancer patients and research. Jeff is no stranger to cancer. In 2017, he…

laurabbook@gmail.comMay 20, 2025

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Family Discourse and Lung Cancer

*April 2025* Cancer can open up many hot topics regarding diagnosis, care, and survival. Can you function fully or partially? How will the medicine you're taking affect your day-to-day? Is surgery an option? What can you do or not do? Many of these questions don't initially include how the family…

laurabbook@gmail.comMay 18, 2025

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Member Spotlight: Theresa Flanagan

*March 2025* Written by Karen LeBonte In 2014, Theresa Flanagan was about to start working with the elderly as part of her master’s degree thesis. A TB test was a prerequisite for the job, but getting those results would have taken too long. “They said, ‘just go get an x-ray,’”…

laurabbook@gmail.comMay 18, 2025

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I Lost My Mom and Dad to Lung Cancer—Now I Have It

*February 2025* Diagnosed with lung cancer at just 39 years old, EGFR Resisters co-founder Jill Feldman recounts how her advocacy efforts before her diagnosis prepared her for the battle ahead. Losing both parents and other close family members to lung cancer, Jill feared for her own children and worked tirelessly…

laurabbook@gmail.comMay 16, 2025

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Member Spotlight: Maggie McCloskey

*February 2025* Written by Karen LeBonte As Maggie McCloskey celebrated her 60th birthday in May, she told herself, “2021 is going to be the best year of my life!” But between May and September of that year, a slow cascade of puzzling health events began to test her certainty.…

laurabbook@gmail.comMay 16, 2025

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In the US, young and middle-aged women are being diagnosed with lung cancer at higher rates than men

*November 2024* Susan Wojcicki, the late CEO of YouTube, had a message for the world just weeks before she passed. “Although lung cancer overall is decreasing because of declines in tobacco use, lung cancer among people who have never smoked has been rising significantly,” Wojcicki wrote in a YouTube blog that was posted…

laurabbook@gmail.comDecember 21, 2024

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Member Spotlight: Leigh Durant (Caregiver)

*November 2024* Leigh Durant’s experience as the lung cancer caregiver for her mother, Alice Hughes, began in April 2024, when Alice told Leigh she just didn’t feel like herself. Leigh said, “She’s always been very aware of her body, her physical state.” Because of that, even though Alice had suffered…

laurabbook@gmail.comDecember 17, 2024

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Member Spotlight: Stephanie D’Elia

*September 2024* Stephanie D’Elia is a microbiologist with a passion for bacteria. She loves seeing how much bacteria will grow in test tubes or on petri dishes, and what those growths will look like. She also enjoys the colorful reactions that can occur in the test tubes because of the…

laurabbook@gmail.comDecember 15, 2024

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My Rock

*March 2024* By Juanita Segura Recently, I’ve been asked who my rock is and how have they helped me. Many might automatically think it’s my husband, children, or family. But honestly, it’s not; it’s my lung cancer community, my tribe! Now, for many, it just might be their spouse or children…

laurabbook@gmail.comJuly 8, 2024

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Empowering Lessons and Lung Cancer

By Ashley Rickles A cancer journey can be very difficult - often confusing and quite painful. This journey often comes with lots of tears. Sometimes the journey becomes life lessons. I have learned some really empowering lessons along the way. People treat you different People will absolutely treat you differently while on a…

laurabbook@gmail.comJuly 7, 2024

Member Spotlight: Jeff Stibelman

Family Discourse and Lung Cancer

Member Spotlight: Theresa Flanagan

I Lost My Mom and Dad to Lung Cancer—Now I Have It

Member Spotlight: Maggie McCloskey

In the US, young and middle-aged women are being diagnosed with lung cancer at higher rates than men

Member Spotlight: Leigh Durant (Caregiver)

Member Spotlight: Stephanie D’Elia

My Rock

Empowering Lessons and Lung Cancer

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