When Jennifer Morrice went to the emergency room 11 years ago for stomach pain, the last thing she expected was a lung cancer diagnosis.
The San Francisco resident was 45 at the time, healthy, and had never smoked — the opposite of what was long thought of as the stereotypical lung cancer patient, who’d historically been older, male and a smoker.
But doctors found tumors in Morrice’s left lung — Stage 3 lung cancer — that were likely putting pressure on her nerves and causing the abdominal pain she went in for. She hadn’t been coughing or showing any other signs of lung problems…