“Now is the time to push harder than ever before and finally beat lung cancer.”
A year ago, Secret Service Special Agent Rod Wellman never thought he’d befor a 100K race. The distance was never something he thought would cross his path. He thought the same thing about lung cancer.
Yet, on October 4, 2018, Wellman found himself at an urgent care center for a cough that hadn’t gone away after several weeks. Some scans and X-rays revealed the cause.. “I thought it was just a chest cold. Then, they told me I had stage 4 cancer in my lungs.”By the time doctors discovered the cancer, it had already spread: There were “countless” tumors in his lungs, and it had also metastasized to his brain and lymph nodes..
, received little research funding compared to other forms such as breast cancer, he said. Wellman thinks that lung cancer being labeled as a “smoker’s disease” may play a role in this. “People automatically assume that people who have lung cancer must have smoked, and you did this to yourself,” he said. “There’s a lot of people like me where that is not the case, yet it seems to get pushed down the funding lists.”
Motivated to act, the 49-year-old father of two decided to raise money, and the best way to do that was to run. Wellman had a history with running that started in high school on the track team, so he started small: He ran the Linda Vasso Memorial 5K, which is put on by the GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer, and raised $8,000 by himself for it.“I was looking for something after my diagnosis that would maybe get a little attention on what I and others are dealing with,” Wellman said.
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