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YouTube shares a final blog post from Susan Wojcicki on fighting lung cancer

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YouTube has shared a final blog post from Susan Wojcicki, the company’s former CEO and one of Google’s earliest employees, detailing her unexpected diagnosis and two-year battle with lung cancer. Wojcicki wrote the message in the last weeks of her life and had planned to publish it this fall, according to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan. Wojcicki died unexpectedly in August.

In the blog post, Wojcicki discusses life with the disease, along with her efforts to support cancer research, both before and after her diagnosis. Wojcicki writes that women die from lung cancer more than any other cancer and says that two-thirds of non-smokers diagnosed with the disease are women.

Her message begins:

At the end of 2022, I was diagnosed with lung cancer. I…

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