Lung cancer survivor encourages others to quit smoking and advocates for cancer screenings
WDET - Susie Lawrence, Ph.D. says joining the Lung Cancer Screening Program at Karmanos led to her survival.
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During National Cancer Survivor’s Month in June, Susie Lawrence, Ph.D. shared how she found out she had lung cancer with WDET. As a decades-long smoker whose father died of lung cancer, Dr. Lawrence thought her cough was normal until a health care specialist asked her about her personal and family health history. She was referred to the Lung Cancer Screening Program at Karmanos Cancer Institute.
“The fact that I was in the screening program, I was totally asymptomatic,” Dr. Lawrence told WDET. “People with lung cancer often are until it’s quite advanced. The screening and the timing of it happening really are what I would attribute my survival.”
Listen and read Dr. Lawrence’s full interview, here.