Doctor-Turned-Patient Focuses On What He Can Control After a Lung Cancer Diagnosis at Age 30

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07/30/23

Dr. Dan Tran was in residency and about to start a five-month rotation in anesthesia in the fall of 2017 when he developed back pain and numbness in his legs that made walking nearly impossible. After several tests, and just days before Christmas, Tran was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer at the age of 30.

CURE recently spoke with Tran, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Virginia Commonwealth University, about how he felt upon receiving his diagnosis at such a young age, and how he’s managed to keep a positive outlook in the years since: by focusing not on cancer, but on what he does with it.

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