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Heather Quintana was feeling under the weather for weeks

After several doctor visits, they kept giving her antibiotics, but she wasn't getting better

When she finally got a CT scan, they found "cancer everywhere"

Toward the end of 2023, Heather Quintana started feeling a bit under the weather. She had a cough that simply wouldn't go away, but didn't think anything of it, since, as a mother of two, she was used to getting sick.

Around Christmas that year, she found herself constantly bringing lozenges around to help quell her cough. But still, her symptoms never subsided. Then, in February 2024, she became even more congested.

"I was having a very bad cold, and it became worse with extreme lung congestion and fatigue," she tells PEOPLE. "I started to wheeze. I thought, 'T

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