AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) -- Dr. Ross Camidge is the director of the Thoracic Oncology Department at the University of Colorado Cancer Center on the Anschutz Medical Campus.

"We've led or contributed to almost every major development of lung cancer in the last decade," Camidge said.

The MD and PhD says he has helped treat thousands of lung cancer patients from more than 40 states and more than 40 countries. Now, in a crazy life twist, Camidge is a lung cancer patient himself.

His journey started in June of 2022.

"I noticed a wheezing noise when I was exercising," Camidge remembers.

He went to see his primary care doctor to see if he was developing asthma and asked for a chest X-ray.

"I left the office, got the chest X-ray, and then walked to my office, which is all in the same building, a

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