Lung Cancer Awareness Month: Seeing the Person Behind the Images
November 18th, 2010
“We all know that Donna Cronister is special, but let me tell you why she is my personal angel,” said Debra Frank, Radiology administrative associate for the 3D Lab and Drs. Sandy Napel and David Paik. “When I was mailing a card to Donna in thanks for her help on a project, I tripped near the mail boxes on Palm Drive, and I fell, injuring my knee and arm. I had to have stitches to close the cut on my knee as well as a chest X-ray for the pain in my arm.” Because her general practitioner thought he saw something suspicious on the chest X-ray, Debra was sent to Stanford for a CT scan in November of 2007. “If it wasn’t for our Stanford radiologists, I might not be as healthy as I am today. Almost from my first scan, they thought I could have lung cancer.”

