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So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.

Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.

Each of us knows a few or several young people whose lives have been devastated by cancer. I don't mean to be nihilistic about it, but it is very much an active killer of people now.

Cancer affects so many people, and even if it hasn't affected someone in your family then you know someone who has had it.

Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.

Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

I wish I could never spend another second talking about cancer and all it does to everyone it surrounds, but unfortunately, that cannot be because of my life.

Cancer affects everyone, and it's up to all of us to support the important research that can one day make a much sought-after cure a reality.

When I was going through my chemotherapy, I realized not many people are willing to talk about cancer, even after getting fully cured. Celebrities and educated people are also very protective and private about it. I still haven't understood why. I decided to fight my battle out in the public.

It was part of the reason I almost didn't go public with my diagnosis - I was embarrassed. I felt, 'Oh, I've always talked about exercising. And I got cancer.' And then I realized it's a great example of showing that cancer can hit anyone at any time.