Lung Cancer: Jill's Patient Story
This lung cancer diagnosis at a glance
- Sex
- Female
- Outcome
- Living With Cancer
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.
Where this story comes from
This is a lay summary of an account first published by LUNGevity. Read the original in full
These are lay summaries of published cancer stories, for information only. No two cancers behave the same way, and nothing here predicts your own diagnosis or replaces advice from your oncology team.