American football star Chris Draft and Dublin GAA hero Michael Darragh MacAuley join forces to help highlight the Irish Cancer Society’s lung cancer awareness month, which takes place throughout January. More than 2,500 people in Ireland are diagnosed with lung cancer each year, and both sportsmen know what it’s like to lose a loved one to the disease. <more>

(CBS46)- Patty Watkins was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer five years ago this month.“I basically woke up from a surgery that I didn't know I was going to have with a surgeon at Kennestone telling me that I had stage four lung cancer and to get my affairs in order and to call my kids home from Auburn.” <more>