My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.
Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.
I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.
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.
On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps.
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.
Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.
I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.
I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.