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One Scan Saved My Life: How One Woman's Story Will Change the Way We Detect Lung Cancer

by Shira Kupperman Boehler
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781510788022
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing
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  • Pages: 240
  • Original Price: USD 28.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 363 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Memoirs

A powerful call to reform how we screen for the deadliest cancer, proving that early detection can save lives long before symptoms begin.

She was forty-four, the picture of health -- a devoted mother of four, a daily runner, a kale enthusiast who never smoked a day in her life. But when she signed up for a routine health scan "just to be safe," she discovered the unthinkable: fast-growing stage I lung cancer.

In her searing and hopeful memoir, Shira Kupperman Boehler tells the story of how one moment upended everything -- and how it may have saved her life. As she navigates surgery, recovery, and the emotional aftershocks of a diagnosis that "shouldn't" have happened, she uncovers a staggering truth: by the time most lung cancers are found, it's too late -- not because we can't detect them earlier, but because our health system doesn't.

Part personal journey, part urgent call to action, One Scan Saved My Life shines a light on the silent epidemic affecting millions of Americans -- including nonsmokers, women, and young adults -- who are excluded from current screening guidelines. With clarity and conviction and backed by the input of medical and policy experts, Shira makes a powerful case for expanding early-detection policies and rethinking how we define "risk."

A story of resilience and the power of speaking up, One Scan Saved My Life asks one simple question that could change everything: What if prevention didn't come too late?

Shira Kupperman Boehler is a finance professional and health advocate with degrees in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business. A lifelong athlete and mother of four, she now channels her experience into raising awareness about early lung cancer detection and advancing conversations around prevention and policy. Shira and her family live in Tennessee, where she juggles life from her minivan with a coffee in one hand and a carpool schedule in the other.

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