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Non-Smoker, 38, Diagnosed With Stage 4 Lung Cancer After Doctors Dismissed Symptoms: ‘Nobody Was Worried’ - today.com

Published by TODAY By Aryelle Siclait · 12 August 2026 at 19:38
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Non-Smoker, 38, Diagnosed With Stage 4 Lung Cancer After Doctors Dismissed Symptoms: ‘Nobody Was Worried’ - today.com
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Heather Quintana Suchan thought she had a respiratory infection, then pneumonia. Doctors discovere it was Stage 4 lung cancer in her 30s. She’d never smoked.

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