In 2015, Phyliss DiLorenzo was prepared for the worst after a multi-day hospital stay for severe breathing issues. She suspected lung cancer because of her family history with the disease and was relieved when her clinician told her she had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.Then DiLorenzo thought about her grandmother, who’d been diagnosed with emphysema, a type of COPD, years earlier, and how much the disease changed her. “I watche…
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