Pam Johnson smoked cigarettes for 45 years. She quit the day she had surgery for stage 3 lung cancer.<\/p>\n
“I was anxious and worried,\u201d says Johnson about the day she received her diagnosis in 2010. Her primary care physician had ordered routine blood work that came back abnormal. He ordered a chest x-ray as follow-up to rule out obvious causes of the abnormality. The chest X-ray revealed a suspicious spot in her right lung and a follow-up biopsy confirmed that it was cancerous.<\/p>\n
Johnson says there was no question in her mind where she would go to get care: “UC and the Barrett Center\u2014it\u2019s the best institution in town for cancer care.\u201d<\/p>\n