Amidst the latest two-tiered continuing resolution signed by Congress Nov. 15—averting a government shutdown—cancer organizations are urging Congress to increase funding for cancer research.
For more than a year before her stage 4 lung cancer was found, 35-year-old Alisa Secaida, a never-smoker and a physically active Southern Californian, had been experiencing a persistent cough and, increasingly, fatigue.
