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Print Medical oncologist Alexander Drilon is leading the development of new targeted drugs that can control lung cancer better than ever before.
Middle school chorus and orchestra teacher Melissa Crouse had lived in the Pittsburgh area her whole life. But on a trip to visit her brother in southwest Florida, she decided on a whim to apply for teaching jobs there. The single mom, then 51, quickly received an offer.
“Three big things happened to me at the same time,” Melissa says. “I moved, I started a new job, and, after getting a physical for my new job, I was diagnosed with stage II lung cancer.”