Bonnie Addario, 77, Dies; Survivor of Lung Cancer Made Fighting It a Cause

Health|Bonnie Addario, 77, Dies; Survivor of Lung Cancer Made Fighting It a Cause

Bonnie Addario, a lung crab subsister who raised millions of dollars and campaigned for much resources to forestall and dainty the disease, and to clasp retired anticipation for different patients, died connected Aug. 25 astatine her location successful San Carlos, Calif., successful the San Francisco Bay Area. She was 77.

“The complexities from her surgeries, treatments and different maladies weakened her body,” her husband, Tony Addario, said successful an email. “Her decease was not straight from lung cancer, but lung crab was surely an archetypal contributor.”

Ms. Addario and her household founded GO2 for Lung Cancer, 1 of the largest specified organizations devoted to diligent advocacy and support, aft she had worked her mode up from a secretarial occupation astatine a petroleum products retailer to the company’s presidency.

She was 56 erstwhile she archetypal experienced shooting pains successful her chest. Initially misdiagnosed, she aboriginal underwent a afloat assemblage scan and was recovered to person Stage 3B lung cancer, which had dispersed to the lymph nodes successful her chest.

She was treated with radiation and chemotherapy opening successful precocious 2003. The pursuing spring, surgeons removed a tumor and portion of a lung.

Ms. Addario had smoked a battalion of cigarettes a time for 25 years, but she said lung crab had besides been prevalent successful her family’s aesculapian history; an aunt, uncle and gramps each had the disease. She often noted that though lung crab has been stigmatized successful a blame-the-victim benignant of way, it besides afflicts galore nonsmokers, including young adults.