In September 2014, I developed a cough that would not go away. It seemed to get worse at night. From that September until March 2015, I tried to relieve my cough by taking antibiotics. I also underwent several allergy tests and saw an ENT specialist.

When none of that helped, my primary care doctor finally suggested that I have a CT scan. That’s how I learned I had stage III non-small cell lung cancer, adenocarcinoma in the lower...