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When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.

Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.

Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasn't going to be all of me.

Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

Cancer is too real, and too awful, and I can't make it good or magical. I couldn't even read a book where a character had cancer, for a while... But now I've reached a point where I don't think about cancer nonstop anymore, and sometimes I worry about that - I'm going to forget what I went through; I'm going to forget how horrible it was.

I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.

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.