Veronica Navarro and her husband, Edmundo, meet with Sari Jacoby, MD, at a visit for Veronica’s immunotherapy treatment.
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LUNG CANCERS,
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APPROACHES A HUSBAND AND WIFE BOTH DEVELOPED LUNG CANCER, BUT THEIR TREATMENTS WERE VERY DIFFERENT.
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eronica and Edmundo Navarro never expected to live out their wedding vows quite like they have. “We promised ‘in sickness and in health,’ but I didn’t think about it so literally,” says Veronica, 68. She and Edmundo, 70, both were diagnosed with lung cancer in 2019 and have had overlapping treatments. Together, the couple has experienced firsthand how treatment for lung cancer has advanced, with very promising results.
A TURNAROUND The family’s ordeal began with Veronica. She first realized something was terribly wrong in March 2019, when she started coughing up blood, in addition to her chronic shortness of breath. “She had been having respiratory symptoms for several months,” says Sari Jacoby, MD, medical oncologist at the Newark Beth Israel Medical
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