BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – “If you have lungs, you can get lung cancer, it’s as simple as that,” Debra Smith said.
Three years after her own diagnosis, Smith said the first sign that she had cancer was not what one would expect. “I had a pain in the hip — a discomfort in the hip — which I thought was a pulled muscle from Pilates,” Smith said. [TRENDING: Search ongoing for missing Fla.
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Her pain lasted six weeks and was unchanged after physical therapy. Smith asked her doctor for an MRI of her hip. “The x-ray came back with nothing on it, and the doctor said the only way we could know for sure