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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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Member Spotlight: Karen LaBonté

*September 2024* By February 8, 2021, I had had enough. After 6 weeks of a cough that just wouldn’t quit, several doctor appointments, all the typical asthma treatments that had no effect, I took myself to immediate care and said I needed a chest X-ray. My family said they’d hold off…

laurabbook@gmail.comOctober 6, 2024

Research Stories Treatments

Clinician Spotlight: Dr. Zosia Piotrowska

*June 2024* This month, we are honored to feature Dr. Zosia Piotrowska, MD, MHS. Dr Piotrowska is a medical oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research is focused on improving therapies for EGFR-mutant lung cancers. She has been faculty at the…

laurabbook@gmail.comJuly 11, 2024

Research Stories

Clinician Spotlight: Dr. Alexandre Reuben

*April 2024* This month, we are honored to feature Dr Alexandre Reuben, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Reuben's research aims to understand how to boost the body's T-cell response against lung cancer, uncovering resistance mechanisms within the…

laurabbook@gmail.comJuly 8, 2024

Coping With Cancer

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

COPING & STORIES

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

Member Spotlight: Karen LaBonté

Clinician Spotlight: Dr. Zosia Piotrowska

Clinician Spotlight: Dr. Alexandre Reuben

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