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I want to start out saying, life has had its ups and downs for me, but because of that I have learned to appreciate life along the way. Keep a smile on my face and take life one day at a time and sometimes it was just an hour or a minute...
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- Sat May 3, 2008 16:23:04 PDT
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We started our group, which we call "Girls Night Out," three years ago. We share all our life stories with each other and found that all of us have had a family member or friend who have died from cancer. Last year, one of the...
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- Sat May 3, 2008 16:13:49 PDT
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In 2006 I went to a dermatologist and he cut out a growth that was in my ear. He told me it was malignant. In 2007, it came back and I was at CBCC and they cut it out again. And then I had one cut out of my right eye, just under the eye,...
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- Sat May 3, 2008 15:46:31 PDT
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Before I was diagnosed, my mother had passed away two years before from a rare type of cancer. It was spindle cell cancer and there was no treatment for it at the time. She was in a research study but it didn't work for her.
I was...
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- Sat May 3, 2008 15:44:26 PDT
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I'm a breast cancer survivor, praise God. I was diagnosed in 1998 because of a lump in my right breast, which I prayed and prayed to go away. But it didn't so eventually they found out it was cancer. The doctor who treated me was also my...
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- Sat May 3, 2008 15:41:25 PDT
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I was diagnosed in 1993. I had called the Cancer Society to get information to help me deal with my mom because my mom had cancer. And two weeks later, I had to use the information for myself. It was breast cancer and I went through a...
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- Sat May 3, 2008 15:35:03 PDT
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Coming here today, means to me learning more about everyone's struggles, and tough life stories. Before I thought it was just me and that there wasn't many people with cancer, Coming here shows I'm not the only one. People with cancer...
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- Sat May 3, 2008 15:17:52 PDT
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Being a five-year survivor has been a very enlightened experience. In October 2002 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. From this I had to have a right breast masectomy. At the time my job had just ended and I did not have insurance. With...
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- Sat May 3, 2008 15:13:41 PDT
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My journey with cancer started June 6, 2007 when I received the news that I had "Cancer". It came as a slap in the face, as I was is the best health of my life, or so I thought. That started a jouurney that I will never...
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- Sat May 3, 2008 12:11:15 PDT
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Alex: Hi my name is Alexandria. I'm 12 years old I'm here today because I'm a cancer survivor. I've been a survivor for about 8 years.
Tina: When she was 1 1/2 she got diagnosed with a blood cancer, histiocytosis type x. She was just...
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- Sat May 3, 2008 09:34:44 PDT
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