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

The doctor, who has an MD and Ph.D, has helped treat thousands of lung cancer patients from more than 40 states and over 40 countries. Now, in a 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, and I pulled up the X-ray on my computer, and I went, 'Oh my goodness, I've got lung cancer,'" he recalled.

Camidge saw a doctor and was diag

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