TORONTO — Katie Hulan's family doctor thought she might have asthma.

Her cough, which had started about a month and a half earlier, was getting progressively worse. So he gave her some puffers to try, but they didn't work.

"I was just getting to the point where I couldn't speak at work," said the 37-year-old tech marketing manager.

"At the end of the day, I would be in pain just from the shaking and coughing."

Her doctor ordered an X-ray that showed a mass on her lung.

"(My doctor) said to go to emergency, thinking it was a blood clot," Hulan remembers.

After about six hours of more tests, they told her she had stage 4 lung cancer.

"That was one of the most devastating moments of my life," she said.

"My immediate reaction was, 'I know how this story ends.' And so for me, it just fe

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