Lacing Up for Lungs
Meet Sarah Evans (and her mom Isabelle). In 2021, Sarah teamed up with GO2 for Lung Cancer. As part of the GO2 for Lung Cancer Endurance Team, she raised awareness and much-needed funds to help improve lung cancer survival. [...]
Evy Schiffman on Community and the Power of Storytelling
Evy Schiffman’s husband Neil was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in 2011, a month before their 37th wedding anniversary. He passed away four years later. Then in 2018, Schiffman went in for a coronary artery calcium CT scan [...]
Sydney Barned Says the Stigma Around Lung Cancer Needs to Go
Sydney Barned, MD, was 33 years old and in her medical residency when she was diagnosed with stage 4 ALK-positive lung cancer. A year prior to diagnosis, she woke up with severe shortness of breath and decided she needed [...]
GO2 for Lung Cancer Honors Champions of the Lung Cancer Community At the Simply the Best XVI Gala
Patients, researchers, physicians, and caregivers honored at annual event SAN CARLOS, Calif. and WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- GO2 for Lung Cancer (GO2 for Lung Cancer) honored leaders in lung cancer research and treatment, as well as dedicated lung cancer caregivers at its [...]
Hank Baskett Wants You to Choose Life Every Day
Hank Baskett was accompanying a friend to an appointment at the VA hospital in Amarillo, TX, when he figured that maybe he should see a doctor about his persistent, hacking cough. An X-ray, an MRI, and a CAT scan [...]
For Sarina Logan, Staying Positive Is About One Day at a Time
Sarina Logan is 41 and was diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in 2018. Thanks to the urging of family friend and GO2 for Lung Cancer Co-founder Bonnie Addario, Logan had comprehensive biomarker testing. The finding that her [...]
You’re Invited: Simply the Best XVI Under the Stars
Each year, we host our annual fundraising and awards gala in San Carlos, CA. This special evening gives us the opportunity to recognize our industry partners, researchers, doctors, nurses, survivors, and funders, as well as our many individual supporters [...]
You’re Invited: The New Lung Cancer Living Room
Every month our Lung Cancer Living Room Series brings hope home to people with lung cancer and their families around the world. Anyone who has attended the event, whether in-person or virtually, knows that this is far from your [...]
How One Cancer Center is Shining a Light on Lung Cancer
UW Health Swedish American is preparing to host a Shine a Light on Lung Cancer event this November. Their goal is twofold: to honor lung cancer patients and caregivers and to provide education for their staff caring for lung [...]
A Mother’s Love
Written by Nicole Famularo My mom’s cancer story started in July 2013, although, we came to find out much later that the tumor had probably started to develop years prior to her diagnosis. My parents, my four siblings, and [...]