I became an MCLS Ambassador because I want to help spread awareness and understanding of what it’s truly like to live with lung cancer. By sharing my personal experiences, including the treatments, side effects, and challenges I’ve faced, I hope to break down the stigma surrounding this disease.

At 28, during her second year in a Doctorate of Education (EdD) in Leadership program, Aurora’s life took an unexpected turn when she was diagnosed with Stage IIIA Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

I want to be a light and a hope in the darkness of an incurable cancer diagnosis and use my experiences to help change the future of what that means. To focus on how we live with and treat cancer and side effects of cancer drugs that impact our life so they are more than tolerable and we are able to live a quality life.

As someone taking both aromatase inhibitors and CDK4/6 inhibitors, I struggle daily with side effects that impact my quality of life and are also enormously shitty and embarrassing to deal with. It just plain sucks and I'm thrilled to be an Ambassador for “Make Cancer Less Shitty.”