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By Meryl L. Bralower, as told to Jo Cavallo  / February 15 2012

I Never Expected to Get Lung Cancer

When intermittent chest pains sent me to the emergency room nearly a decade ago, I worried that I was having some kind of cardiac event. The ER doctor wanted to make sure that I didn’t have a pulmonary embolism, so in addition to ordering a complete cardiac workup, she also ordered a chest x-ray to ...