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PROFILES IN LUNG CANCER - DAY 23: RACHAEL WILLEFORD

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Lung Cancer Awareness Month 2015   November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month.  This year I am participating in an effort to raise awareness through a Lung Cancer Blog Chain.  This is my second contribution.  I'd like to introduce.... RACHAEL WILLEFORD , Lung Cancer Advocate and Co-chair of Lafayette (Louisiana) Free to Breathe *   Rachael with Dr. Brendan Stiles at the Free to Breathe Lung Cancer Action Summit [* Free to Breathe is a partnership of lung cancer survivors, advocates, researchers, healthcare professionals and industry leaders, united in the belief that every person with lung cancer deserves a cure.    http://www.freetobreathe.org/   ] Ra ch ael's Twitter handle:  PollywogPrinces Rachael, what is your connection to lung cancer?  Rachael with Lafayette Free to Breathe chair Tanya Farmer "Four members of my mom's side of the family have died from lung cancer. Two of them were my mom's best friends - her brot...

PROFILES IN LUNG CANCER - DAY 8: JILL FELDMAN

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Lung Cancer Awareness Month 2015 As part of Lung Cancer Awareness Month 2015, I am participating in a Blog Chain.  Along with several other lung cancer bloggers, I will be interviewing members of our lung cancer community.  Our hope is to raise awareness by bringing to our readers the faces and stories of people fighting our battle, those that care for us, and our doctors that are giving us a fighting chance.   I'd like to introduce... JILL FELDMAN , Lung Cancer Advocate and Warrior , (in that order.) W ho is Jill?   She is the 13 -year-old granddaughter who lost two grandparents to lung cancer within weeks of each other.  She is the daughter whose father died at 41 years old of lung cancer, ni ne months after her grandparents die d.  She is t he daughter whose mother died at 54 years old of lung cancer.  She is t he niece whose aunt died at 56 years ol d of lung cancer.  She is the former pres ident of L UNG evity who was diagnosed with lung ca...