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By Carol Tietz, as told to Jo Cavallo  / October 10, 2021

Overcoming the Stigma of Small Cell Lung Cancer

Since my small cell lung cancer diagnosis in 2010, I’ve had to overcome not just the distress of having a life-threatening disease, but the stigma attached to it as well. I admit that I was a smoker. I was attracted to smoking when I was 16 and saw how “cool” people looked smoking in television and ...