Survivor Stories

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Christina G’s Story

It was July when I had a pain in my side. I was 42, everyone thought it was an appendix issue. I went to the ER since everyone had me worried. Being a mom of 2, and having a high threshold for pain, I wasn’t too worried. Hours later, after a CT scan and an […]

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Carla A’s Story

Wow!!!!! Imagine my surprise when I went to my urologist because my urine was dark and they want to check for kidney issues including stones only to be told “We found a mass on your liver”. I quickly followed up with an appointment with my PCP, Dr. Jacob Curtis, and I left his office alone

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Julie M’s Story

I have always been in tune with my body and noticed something wasn’t right. After getting labs done, they found hyperthyroidism which quickly turned to Graves’ Disease. I found this out while I was pregnant and going to college full-time. My labs had something strange in them that made me feel that something was not

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Aim’s Story

Hi I’m Aim, and I went from victim to victorious. I’m a breast cancer warrior like many others out there now.  I’m very proud and happy to be alive and to join all of you in this community.  I had bilateral breast cancer surgery a few days ago and at first I felt scared deflated

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Brittney’s Story

Diagnosed at 31 with stage 4 CRC in Sept 2019. Tried getting a colonoscopy a few years before diagnosis, only to be denied and told I’m too young. Had fatigue, occasional bloody stools, and off and on again back pain. Went through numerous chemotherapy treatments, liver, lung and colon resection to remove the primary tumor

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Mike D’s Story

Let me start out by saying that like most people I never dreamed that I would get Cancer.  However, around April of 2016 I started losing my appetite and was having a hard time keeping food on my stomach.  A few months after that I started getting better but still had a problem keep food

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Melissa E’s Story

I am a 6 year survivor and God healed me 3 times of the same cancer so just keep pushing and praying and most importantly keep your faith in God and he will do the rest. I am for healing to everyone with this disease. Share your own cancer survivor story to spread more inspiration!

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Lisa P’s Story

My survival story starts in mid-2018 while I was a caregiver for my mom who was battling metastatic lung cancer. I had some significant GI symptoms which I ignored assuming they were stress related. I did the same when I developed horrible right neck, shoulder, and arm pain. In early 2019, I finally broke down

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Jan M’s Story

In 2017 when we started talking about what we were going to do in retirement, where we were going to live etc. I decided I would look into having a gastric sleeve. Fast forward to January 2018 I was on the operating room table for the surgery and the surgeon Dr. Peters flicked the camera up

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Steve P’s Story

I am now a 67-year-old retired industrial accountant living in Western Colorado. I am enormously grateful and blessed to announce that I am celebrating 10 years of survivorship this, the summer and fall of 2022. May 1st of 2012, I received that infamous diagnosis that I did indeed have Tonsillar Cancer and that it was the

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