As an 18-year-old, Lauren Rodriguez never suspected her lingering cough would turn out to be a lung cancer symptom.

“I was in shock,” Lauren says of her lung cancer diagnosis. “I never suspected something like that.”

Today, Lauren’s cancer-free, thanks to her MD Anderson care team. But cancer has changed how the now-19-year-old views life.

“I’ve been given a second chance,” she says.

The first lung cancer symptoms...