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In August 2013, I completed my first Ironman triathlon -- a 2.4-mile swim followed by a 112-mile bike ride and a 26-mile run.?

Only 16 months earlier, I¡¯d been diagnosed with stage III kidney cancer at MD Anderson. I¡¯d traveled 1,141 miles from my home in the Cayman Islands to MD Anderson, where I underwent a partial nephrectomy.?

My cancer was found by chance. After visiting my local doctor for two hernias, an...