What happened, in summary

Jill Feldman lost multiple family members to lung cancer before receiving her own diagnosis. Those losses and her personal experience shaped a long-term commitment to building patient communities and helping people affected by lung cancer find support, information, and a way to advocate for themselves.

For Jill, involvement with the lung-cancer community provided something that individual coping alone could not. Connecting with other patients and families helped her process grief and diagnosis, while her advocacy work expanded into patient communities around the world. She continued encouraging care teams to help people find community rather than face lung cancer in isolation.