Dan W. has a wife and 2 young daughters and is known as a “super dad. But at 34, he started feeling short of breath, tightness in his chest and lost his voice. After undergoing a number of tests and being pumped with steroids and inhalers, he was then diagnosed with stage 4 ALK+ non-small cell lung cancer.

In this story, he shares the importance of patient advocacy, sharing your story and experiences, having doctors in your corner and willing to fight for you and being honest and open with your children.

The interview has only been edited for clarity.

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Contents of video
00:00 - Intro
02:10 - Describe your first symptoms
06:48 - Receiving the news & thinking about your kids
07:44 - Getting the official diagnosis
10:42 - Reaction to the diagnosis
13:31 - Treatment: Radiation and targeted therapy
16:31 - Importance of biomarker testing
17:46 - Advocating for yourself
21:34 - Targeted therapy
23:04 - Side effects from Alectinib
24:46 - The White Ribbon Project
27:25 - What does it mean to you and your family to have that?
28:22 - Sharing your cancer story from a father’s perspective
30:04 - Living with cancer as a parent with young children

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