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In Aug '11 I was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer. At that time I was given a 28% 5yr survival rate...which later dropped down to 18%. I was told to prepare for the worst. I had to deal with the nightmare of preparing a will & the...

I lost my husband my best friend to Cancer over two years ago, helping him go through the chemo, Radiation and the endless trips to the hospital and Dr.'s offices was hard. He was given day to weeks to live and we eeked out 9 and...

I dont know if I qualify as a cancer survivor , but I feel as though sould.About ten years ago my wife Sue was diagnosed with breast cancer, on hearing that word I was absolutely devastated. I thought the end of our world had come...

I know that I didn't HAVE cancer yet...but was on a one way street to getting it and was very close to the turn for cancer when I found out....this is my story, sans many emotions I can not express into words......
When I was...

January 14th 2007 I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

I know the symptoms leading up to it was heavy coughing. And in the months prior to being diagnosed I was getting severe night sweats. I would wake up with my clothes stuck...

I was only in my twenties when I learned I had ovarian cancer.  The oncologist said I was lucky they caught it.  I went through a complete hysterectomy and endless rounds of chemo.  (For the record, I am not one...

I, like all you out there, would not have invited cancer in invade my body, but it did anyway. Noone in their right mind wants to go there. The exception may be those watching a child or spouse go through it. I can understand...

On June 8th 2006 I was diagnosed with stage IV nasopharyngeal carcinoma. After concomitant chemo and radiation, I've survived five years since that time. God is Awesome.
There has been some ugly side effects from this awful disease. I...

My story isn't very long. I have had testicular cancer twice. Once in 2005, and once in 2010. Both times resulted in the loss of a testicle. I now have none. I cannot have children now, and since the testosterone medicine is so...

It seems to me that more and more people outlive their cancer now.  No longer is it automatically a death sentence to get the diagnosis.

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies...

I survived it in 94. The same thing Lance Armstrong (multiple Tour De France winner) had. Personally, I dont care for his public service announcements, making him sound like he did something great by surviving it. I was lucky enough to...

well as odd as this is going to seem, and the fact that I am doing this on my phone text to speech. of all of the sexual things I could have written about first, I will do this story and add and edit when I can.
in early November...

Getting ready to retire and enjoy my life with my husbnd and daughter. We had talked about it often. We were going to take a trip across crounty and see someof the places I had heard my husband talk about and just enjoy the beauty of...

It was a Thursday, that week we were off school for state-wide in-service, the night before I'd played Star Wars with my first cousin in his unfinished basement, it was his birthday and he had just turned 5 and I was 7. It was 1980...

53 years ago, I was born with Neuroblastoma - a cancer that was then lethal. I was only 8 months old when I was operated on. The tumor was huge, on the left upper part of my abdomen and crept under my ribs and into my spine. After being...

As a young woman with downs Syndrome i thought i was not going to be diagnosed with cancer

I was wrong in June 2008 i was diagnosed with leukemia the cancer of the blood this was so hard to go through i know that i am strong and I...

IN 1973 I was diagnosed with breastcancer. I was on my own with 3 small children. I was also a recovering drug addict.Lumpectomy and months of radiation while trying to convincemykids I wouldnotdie,do treatment and go to NA meetings to...

Does anyone else have issues dealing with all the after effects of being a survivor? Sometimes I really wonder if I wouldn't have been better off not living through it. The long term effects, not just of the disease itself but from all...

I'm a cancer suvivor. two years ago, I was diagnosed for cancer.my neighbour introduced me to a spiritual healer. it was a miracle. I still can't believe till now. Yours can be a miracle too. You can mail me if you need the healing...