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 […]

March 19th, 2021. I was drinking my morning coffee, just about to get ready for work when I got this sharp pain on my right side. It went up my side, to my arm, my shoulder, and my neck. It was so sharp I couldn’t catch my breath. I woke up my wife and told

My name is Anna and I am a 9-year breast cancer survivor.  I was diagnosed with Stage I estrogen/progesterone and Her2 positive breast cancer when I was 36-years old.  I found a breast lump in the shower and thought it was probably nothing since there wasn’t a cancer history in my family.  After the biopsy

After what I thought was my body not healing from an emergency c-section five months earlier, I went to my OB to see just what was going on. At first, I was pushed aside saying it was the way my body was healing and possible infection so was sent home on an antibiotic. That didn’t

I was 39 when I was diagnosed. No one wants to hear the words “you have cancer”. I told my oncologist that I wasn’t doing chemo. I had stage 2B cancer, lymph nodes were involved so I had to do radiation and chemo. My oncologist told me and my mom that if I didn’t do

I never thought at the age of 39 my life was going to change…. I had recently had a continuous period that wouldn’t stop for months.  On birth control, nothing worked, I had pain on my lower left side pelvic area for a while.  My doctors did an ultrasound. They thought I was pregnant, and

I was diagnosed with stage 4 terminal lung cancer. I have been through six chemo treatments; two hospital stays, one stay for pneumonia and septic shock and a second Covid. No fun but I survived. They took another cat scan and my cancer shrunk by half.  I WILL SURVIVE!!!!!!! Share your cancer survivor story today!

I had Lymphoblastic leukemia that was diagnosed on 01/16/2007 at 12 years of age.  I was initially categorized as high-risk due to my age. I received the following chemotherapies on this regimen per the University of Minnesota: 1.  Cytarabine intrathecally with a cumulative dose of 39 mg/m2. 2.  Cytarabine intravenously with a cumulative dose of

When I was 16 I started having a lot of trouble when it comes to my reproductive system, I was having a lot of gut-wrenching pain and heavy bleeding. Because I had only had a very short conversation with my parents about my cycle and I thought everything was normal. Fast forward to October of

Hello…my name is Eric and I’ve been encouraged (more than once) to share my story…so, here goes (I’ll try to keep it short…lol).   In 2018 I was experiencing problems eating and went to see my VA PCP who then referred me to a specialist for an EGD. The EGD showed a tumor in my esophagus. Low and