Walkers step up to battle cancer
Jennifer is proof. She was just 19 when she developed a stubborn cough. She eventually went to the doctor, who discovered she had adenoid carcinoma. As she visited doctors, the response was surprise that she had developed cancer at such an early age. But there was also one stock response. How long had you smoked?
That is the attitude toward lung cancer, DeSelm says. “If you get lung cancer, you deserve it. You shouldn’t have smoked.”
Never mind that Jennifer never smoked and never hung around people who did. There seemed to be this obliviousness to the fact that the disease can strike all kinds of people, and the cause sometimes isn’t known.
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At 2:25 pm on February 22nd, 2008 dana said:
How is Jennifer now? I would like to contact her, my daughter also was diagnosed…thanks
At 3:49 pm on September 14th, 2008 Anita DeSelm said:
dana,
my daughter passed away at the age of 20 years old on april 30, 2005.