Cancer summit targets tobacco
Michael Cayse, a 23-year-old recent UK graduate from Northern Kentucky, lost his father to lung cancer when he was 16. Sydney Mitchell, a 62-year-old Lexington resident, smoked for 40 years before being diagnosed with lung cancer in 2001 and having two lobes of her right lung removed. Yesterday, both were part of a standing-room-only crowd of about 200 on hand as the President’s Cancer Panel visited Kentucky — to talk about tobacco.
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