Cancer Patient Finds Hope and New Lease on Life | Sponsored Content [Video]

 The image means so much to Jackie Taul that she affixed it to her refrigerator and gave out copies to her son, daughter and five grandchildren. It’s not the prettiest picture to look at, but to the 60-year-old retired emergency room nurse, it’s beautiful. Because the image from the clear lung scan Taul received in February of 2023 is a constant reminder of her second chance at life.

The picture had been far bleaker two years earlier, when physicians preparing to treat Taul for a hernia discovered lung cancer. A biopsy of a lymph node in her neck confirmed the diagnosis: Stage 4 metastatic carcinoma. “I was never sick a day,” the Breckinridge County resident recalls. And suddenly, she was facing a disease with very low survival rates.

The recommendation of a friend led Taul to contact Norton Cancer Institute, the leading cancer care center among patients in Louisville and Southern Indiana. There she saw Dr. Adam Lye, thoracic medical oncologist …