It took complications from prostate cancer surgery for Charles Florsheim to discover he had lung cancer.A chest X-ray before a second operation showed a “vague density” that turned out to be the disease that kills more Americans than the three other leading cancers combined.”It came as a complete shock,” Florsheim said, sitting in his downtown Fort Worth law office 18 months after surgery to remove the upper and middle lobes of his right lung.He wanted to just walk away from the disease, he said. But his oncologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center drew him into the National Lung Cancer Partnership. Now, Florsheim’s promoting education about lung cancer and efforts to raise money for woefully underfunded research.

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