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Terrie Linn McNutt Hall (July 19, 1960 – September 16, 2013) was an American anti-smoking and anti-tobacco advocate.She was a survivor of ten cancer diagnoses, undergoing 48 radiation treatments, and nearly a year's worth of chemotherapy, before and after undergoing a laryngectomy in 2001. [2]
In May 2013, he was diagnosed with stage-4 non-small-cell EGFR-positive lung cancer. [3] As Kalanithi underwent cancer treatment, he shared his reflections on illness and medicine, authoring essays in The New York Times, [4] The Paris Review, [5] and Stanford Medicine, [6] and participating in interviews for media outlets and public forums. [7]
In November 1994, Boston health care attorney Kenneth Schwartz was diagnosed with lung cancer. During his 10-month illness, he discovered the importance of the human connection between caregiver and patient, saying that “the smallest acts of kindness made the unbearable bearable.” [ 1 ]
Paul Alexander, the man who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years after contracting polio, died Monday after being hospitalized for Covid last month, his friends and family said.
Richard Davies deBronkart Jr (born February 18, 1950), widely known as e-Patient Dave, is a cancer patient and blogger who, in 2009, became a noted activist for healthcare transformation through participatory medicine and personal health data rights.
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Lung cancer is the most diagnosed and deadliest cancer worldwide, with 2.2 million cases in 2020 resulting in 1.8 million deaths. [3] Lung cancer is rare in those younger than 40; the average age at diagnosis is 70 years, and the average age at death 72. [2] Incidence and outcomes vary widely across the world, depending on patterns of tobacco use.
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