“To know Jenn is to love her,” said Jenn Bohlander’s friend Colleen Pirozzi. From traveling to Antarctica twice in her role as Scientific Programmer at University of Colorado Boulder and receiving the Congressional Antarctic Service Medal for her work there, to completing several marathons and a triathlon, Jenn’s list of accomplishments is notable.

I am a Lung Cancer survivor. On January 8, 2017 I had chest pains. These weren’t new but they were different and actually I had been having intermittent chest pains but they always went away. This time seemed different, and my daughter insisted that I go to the ER.

My name is Barbara and I am a 43-year-old two-time cancer survivor. I have lost 4 family members to lung cancer over a 10-year period starting at age 27, including my dad, uncle, grandmother and my mother. I was also the caregiver for both of my parents.

There was no warning. On that March 2021 day, one moment, Surgery Physician Assistant Elissa Doty was pulling up patient files, and the next, she collapsed on the ground. Her heart stopped. Three times.

On October 24th of 2018, I was diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer adenocarcinoma stage-3A.   I had the classic symptoms for an apical (pancoast) lung tumor for nearly a year.  During this time, I had pain in my upper chest just above my breast, pain under my...

My journey began in 2019 when a persistent cough crept into my life. At first, my primary doctor dismissed it as seasonal allergies, but as the months passed, the cough intensified. The holiday season came and went, and then COVID-19 arrived in March 2020. Fearful of...

From decorator to doctorate, volunteer Samantha Ogle’s journey in the medical world has been motivated by her passion for helping others.  Originally from Richlands, Virginia, Ogle left home to move to North Carolina at a young age. She was working as a cake decorator...