I was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer at 28 having never smoked.. here are the warning signs young people need to know READ MORE: Lung cancer in young people who never smoked By Maiya Focht Health Reporter For Dailymail.
Com Published: 15:35 EDT, 18 June 2024 | Updated: 15:51 EDT, 18 June 2024 e-mail View comments When Aurora Lucas started feeling chest pain in August 2021 she initially brushed it off as stress. She was busy. She had recently moved to Chicago to start a new teaching job and was in the second year of her doctorate program.
But when the pain didn't go away, and she developed a cough, fatigue and back pain, she went to the ER. She never imagined she'd receive the diagnosis that eventually came three months after that first hospital visit. It was advanced lung cancer — at 28 years-old.
Aurora had never smoked. It took tests conducted by three different doctors to arrive at the correct conclusion, with two dismissing her symptoms as the result of a lung infection. 'D octors over and over and over again, were doing everything else and suspecting everything else except the word cancer,' Aurora, now 31, said in a video posted to her TikTok channel .
Mrs Lucas was diagnosed with lung cancer when she was just 28 years old. She had to give up teaching in order to get better, but was able to continue pursuing her Doctor of Education degree. Now, at 31, she is entering the dissertation phase of the program.
Now, as she recovers from treatment, she wants to raise aware.