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Acton s Dawn Wang brings awareness to a deadly yet underfunded disease Wicked Local It all started with a nagging cough. After a few weeks, Acton resident Dawn Wang went to her doctor, thinking she might have allergies or asthma. But instead, she was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer at the age of 55. A never-smoker, she had considered herself healthy and fit, and the diagnosis came as a total shock. This was horrible news and it took me quite a while to accept it, said Wang. Wang s oncologist at Mass General Hospital felt confident that given her Asian ancestry and the fact she was a non-smoker, that she had a tumor marker called Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) and testing proved she was correct.

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