ROCKFORD, Mich. (WOOD) — Doctors and researchers are making big strides in the fight against lung cancer.
Like many cancers such as breast and prostate cancers, catching it in its early stages gives doctors and patients more options and a better chance at success.
69-year-old Marty LaBrecque had been a smoker all his life.
“I was a teenager. It was cool then. It actually was at one point. It was casual, but nicotine is not a particularly casual friend,” LaBrecque said.
Along with smoking, LaBrecque picked up his future wife when he was a teenager. The two were married for nearly 50 years before her death in 2017.
“Throat cancer. (There is) no question in my mind what the source of it was,” LaBrecque said.
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