either way the article makes no sense, no Dr would suspect lung cancer before asthma/bronchitis in a young person, especially a non-smoking woman, fat or thin...its not even a fat-shaming thing, its just a probability issue. with a quick google search it looks like ~200,000 people were diagnosed with lung cancer in 2015...there's currently ~25 million with asthma. she A) should have just lost weight if she was sick of being "misdiagnosed" and B) realized relatively uncommon diseases with super common symptoms are hard to diagnose