Lauren Elizabeth Terrazzano was an American journalist best known for her "Life, With Cancer" Newsday column and other writings about her battle with cancer.[1]
Terrazzano graduated from high school in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. In 1990, Terrazzano earned a bachelor's degree from Boston University. After graduating from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 1994, Terrazzano worked at The New York Daily News and The Record before joining Newsday in 1996.
She was diagnosed in August, 2004. She died of lung cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.[2]