When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, my middle school friends and myself really had no idea the impact of that diagnosis, but my family did.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.
Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.
Cancer affects so many people, and even if it hasn't affected someone in your family then you know someone who has had it.
When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I remember him saying how afraid he was that he hadn't gotten to do the things he wanted to do during his life. He had surgery and survived. And he's still alive today, thank God. But it made a big impact on me.
When I had bone cancer, I was just 11 years old. I think my parents suffered a lot because they worried about my health, my life, so much. For me, it was quite bad feeling during the treatment. But I quite enjoyed staying in the hospital because so many kids played with me.
Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.
Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people and instantly know them. My grandmother and I had that. The first time my heart was broken was when my grandmother passed away. I was twenty-one.
My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.
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