SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Let’s start with a hard fact. Lung cancer is intimidating.
We have to remember, lung cancer is still the number one killer cancer in this country. Over 125,000 lives will be lost in 2024.
Debbie Young has a way to take the edge off. She’s a calming influence for folks visiting Hematology-Oncology Associates in East Syracuse, looking for answers.
Right after she started working at HOA a little more than a year ago, a friend suggested she sign up for a free cancer screening. Deb was a smoker from 14 until she was 45.
She kept saying ‘Why don’t you do it?’ And I said ‘No.’ She asked me three times and just about when she was going to ask me again, I go, ‘Fine. Sign me up.’
Debbie Young
Then Debbie goes on to say, “And then my phone rang, and it was the doctor stating that they’d found a spot on my lung.”
Debbie was given three different options for treatment and she chose the most aggressive one. Seeing that both her mother and grandmother died from lung cancer, the choice was easy.