“Like most of us in this country, I had been brainwashed with the idea that only smokers get lung cancer..."

Out of the Blue

How an unexpected lung cancer diagnosis reshaped Laura Greco’s world

June 18, 2018 • By Robin Warshaw

She immediately went online to find information about lung cancer. “I thought, This can’t be me!” she recalls. “Like most of us in this country, I had been brainwashed with the idea that only smokers get lung cancer. And that if you don’t smoke, you don’t need to worry about lung cancer.”

The biopsy showed she had Stage IIIa non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The five-year survival rate was about 16 percent. “It was the worst day of my life,” Greco recalls