Overview
- Her cancer, which doctors found had returned to the pleural lining in March 2026 after fluid was drained from her lungs, now carries an 18‑month prognosis and she is raising money for a clinical trial in Germany.
- She says clinicians dismissed her symptoms eight times until she coughed blood, which led to an X-ray that showed a shadow on her right lung and triggered four months of testing.
- After seven biopsies, she was told in August 2025 she had lung cancer, then in September 2025 surgeons removed the lower lobe of her right lung and lymph nodes and upstaged the disease to stage three after finding six affected nodes.
- Chemotherapy followed and she was declared cancer‑free in February 2026, but severe chest pain the next month led to the discovery of a pleural effusion, a build-up of fluid that revealed the relapse.
- She began vaping at 15 and later switched to disposable vapes before her symptoms started, she blames vaping for her illness, and doctors say smoking and vaping did not help even though they cannot give a definitive cause.