Man Who Never Smoked Promotes Lung Cancer Awareness
Don Gallager thought that a prolonged cough was due to an infection. In fact, that cough was due to lung cancer. The diagnosis was a shock because Don had never smoked, and he thought that it was a “smoker’s disease”. He strongly advocated for lung cancer awareness.
Don Gallagher was fighting stage 3b lung cancer which had slowly metastasized. What he thought was a prolonged cough due to infection, turned out to be cancer. When he got sick in 2019, it came as a complete shock because he believed lung cancer was something you got after smoking, which he had never done.
Don came to Saint Luke's Cancer Institute, where he started his treatment.