Support group breaks isolation of women with lung cancer

Jill Hamer-Wilson has lived to see what seemed impossible nearly four years ago when she was diagnosed with lung cancer: Her eldest son has grown taller than her.
She’s also baked for her children’s bake sales, watched La Machine’s giant robots roam downtown Ottawa to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday and taken up watercolour painting.
“With a lung cancer diagnosis, our world gets smaller,” said Hamer-Wilson, a 52-year-old married mother of three. “At fi