14 April 2019 - There's the story of the 38-year-old solo mother of a teenager, the 68-year-old healthy grandmother of eight.

There's also the Chinese immigrant who was diagnosed with lung cancer aged 51 and the 43-year-old Wellington mum of three.

They're just a few of the thousands of people currently battling lung cancer, the most deadliest in New Zealand which kills more than breast cancer, prostate cancer and melanoma cancer combined each year, according to the Lung Foundation.

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