Gainesville woman suffers from a form of the disease caused by an apparent genetic mutation.
Jump to full article: Gainesville (FL) Sun, 2010-03-08
Author: Diane Chun Staff writer
Intro: Caren Gorenberg couldn't believe it when she was told the news in late 2006. She had a mass in her lung. It was cancer.
"I had no signs ... not a symptom. I was feeling great. I had no clue that anything could possibly be wrong," she said.
"Everybody always asks immediately, 'Did you smoke?' " Gorenberg said.
The 67-year-old mother of four is not a smoker, yet she has been diagnosed with one of the most virulent forms of lung cancer. Now she is making it her personal cause to spread the word about lung cancer. It is increasingly showing up in women, particularly in non-smokers. . . .
Tarceva has proven particularly effective with patients who have Gorenberg's Exon 21 genetic mutation.
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"When I first went to the Internet, I didn't find much in the way of hope. Everything seemed to say, 'If you get this, you die,' " Gorenberg said.
While contacting research institutions and doctors internationally, Jamie Gorenberg discovered the Bonnie J. Addario Foundation.
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