Survivor Stories

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, cancer survivor

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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Lori S’s Story

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

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Anna L, cancer survivor

Anna L’s Story

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

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Lacey B, cancer survivor

Lacey B’s Story

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

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Lydia K, cancer survivor

Lydia K’s Story

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

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Nicole M, cancer survivor

Nicole’s Story

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

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