Anal cancer survivor: âCancer doesnât have to define youâ
Some people get married. Some have children. Some get divorced. Some get cancer. Nelda Blair believes that while these are all life-changing moments, none of them should become a personâs entire identity. Sheâs felt this way ever since she found out she had HPV-related anal cancer in February 2011.
âIâm a take-charge person, and this diagnosis was not going to rule my life or alter my life for any period of time,â she says. âMy...
Doctor gives colorectal cancer survivor strength for treatment
Even though Robin Odle knew she needed a colonoscopy when she turned 50, she put it off.
âIâd been traumatized by a prior GI test,...
Liver cancer treatment gives survivor chance to meet grandson
Sally Hargroves has always been active and full of energy, so when the Floridian became increasingly tired in 2010, she suspected something...
Stem cell transplant gives lymphoma survivor more time with kids
Kate Arnold isnât entirely sure when her journey with non-Hodgkin lymphoma started.
âI probably was walking around with cancer for a long time,â she says.
Aside from fatigue and slight pain from what she thought was an ovarian cyst, she didnât really have any non-Hodgkin lymphoma symptoms.
âIt wasnât until we were scheduling surgery to have it removed and I had an internal ultrasound that we realized that it was not...
