Erica Rimlinger

El cáncer pulmonar es el más mortal y el segundo más diagnosticado en EE.UU. Y muchos tumores pulmonares empiezan en las zonas más alejadas del pulmón, donde no causan síntomas hasta que el cáncer se ha propagado.

Lung cancer is the deadliest and second-most diagnosed cancer in the U.S. And many lung tumors start in the far reaches of the lung, where they don’t cause symptoms until the cancer has spread. HealthyWomen spoke with Bianka Eperjesiova, M.D., the director of interventional pulmonology at Corewell Health and former director of interventional pulmonology at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), about the risks specific to servicewomen and veterans.

Standing before 50 coworkers in the conference room, I was taking questions after giving a presentation when I felt the familiar stirrings of a hot flash. “Please, not now,” I bargained with my perimenopausal body. “Don’t put me in the hot seat both literally and figuratively.” My body rejected the bargain. Like it was coming from a hot hairdryer, the heat blasted up from the center of my chest, just under my collarbones, and spread up through my neck.