Jan Pezarro

Jan Pezarro is a writer, three-time lung cancer survivor, and retired marketing executive living in West Vancouver, British Columbia. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and a BSc in Psychology. Her writing has been published in The Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, Newsweek, Healthy Debate and International Lung Cancer News. Jan is a Patient/Survivor Reviewer for the Canadian Cancer Society and a member of the Executive Steering Committee for the Canadian Lung Cancer Action Plan. Her book, Time bomb: A Memoir of Mad Men and Lung Cancer, is both social commentary and the story of her seven-year cancer journey.