These women were diagnosed with lung cancer. They weren't eligible for screening.

In 2024, Kara Goodwin started feeling a pain in her arm and shoulder that wouldn’t go away.

She was diagnosed with bicep tendinitis and frozen shoulder. Doctors thought the resident of Brooklyn, New York, who has run multiple marathons, had an overuse injury from her active lifestyle.

Two months later, when the pain hadn’t gone away, Goodwin got an MRI. “They could visibly see the giant tumor that was shattering my humerus bone from the inside out,” she said.

Goodwin, now 39, was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer that had spread to her bones. It was “quite shocking as a marathon runner,” she said. “I have no family history of cancer,” she added.

Goodwin’s cancer, while treatable, can’t be cured. The treatments will keep the cancer at bay but eventually, she said, they’ll likely stop w