My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When breast cancer took my mom, it met its biggest enemy.
When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.
Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.
It seems everybody has been somehow affected by cancer, either through a relative or a close friend or somewhere, and they know how devastating cancer can be. And they see me, and I refuse to let it affect how I live and what I do.
My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.
Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.
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.
I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.
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