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March 29 • 2007
Lumberg Zagon, second from left, is pictured with her brother
Michael Lumberg of Farmington Hills; her daughter Hannah
Zagon, now 8; her friend Kate Schmier of Ann Arbor and Kate's
mother, Ellen of Birmingham; and her husband, Glenn Zagon of
Deerfield, Ill.
Kate Schmier
Special to the Jewish
News
Ann Arbor
A
ttitude clearly matters in
fighting cancer',' said the
famous paleontologist
Stephen Jay Gould. "We don't know
why; but match people with the same
cancer for age, class, health, socioeco-
nomic status, and, in general, those
with positive attitudes, with a strong
will and purpose for living, with
commitment to struggle, with active
response to aiding their own treat-
ment and not just a passive acceptance
of anything doctors say, tend to live
longer."
Gould made this assertion shortly
after his diagnosis with abdominal
mesothelioma — a rare cancer for
which the median survival time is
eight months. His vow to remain hope-
ful, however, gave him the resolve to
fight for another 20 years.
More than three years ago, when I
read Gould's words in an article for my
freshman seminar, it struck me that
I knew someone who had proven his
theory of a mind-body connection.
In 2000, Missy Lumberg Zagon, the
daughter of my parents' good friends,
was diagnosed with stage-four lung
cancer.
Missy, then 32, was told that her
prognosis was grim; 85 percent of
new patients died within five years.
Yet like Gould, she refused to allow the
bleak statistics to affect her spirit and
willpower.
Learning that research funding for
her disease, the nation's leading cancer
killer, was severely inadequate, she
joined forces with six other survivors
in the Chicago area. Together, they
created the LUNGevity Foundation,
the only nonprofit organization exclu-
sively devoted to funding lung-cancer
research.
By the time I entered the University
of Michigan in the fall of 2003, the
grassroots organization, under Missy's
leadership, had already raised more
than $500,000. I would have been
impressed if a healthy individual
had accomplished this feat. However,
the fact that Missy did all this while
undergoing treatments and caring for
her young daughter, Hannah, was truly
inspirational. I had such admiration
for her strength that I wanted to bring
LUNGevity's important mission to
campus.
After I shared Missy's story, the uni-
versity community quickly responded.
LUNGevity immediately received
support from University Students