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How has cancer changed your life for the better? We want to feature your story.

Will Warren
- Sep 26, 2016
- 13 min
What I Learned About Being A Caregiver
Our cancer story started on August 20, 2011, after being married just about a year and a half, I was 28, and my wife, Katie, was 25. I got a call from Katie, a nurse at a cardiologist office at the time, while I was at work that she was having pain in her abdomen and the doctor at her office thought it was appendicitis. I wasn’t alarmed. I had heard of appendicitis. It’s something that you go in, have a minor surgery to have it removed since nobody really knows what it do
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By Shannon
- Sep 7, 2016
- 1 min
Teal Tini Recipes?
What's your favorite teal drink (Alcoholic/ non-alcoholic) recipe for September? Here's one that we use: Teal-tini 1.5 oz Malibu Mango .75 oz Blue Curacao 1.5 oz Pineapple Juice .75 oz Sour Mix It's always more fun when drinking with friends! Share with us your favorite recipe below. #Kancer #teal #TealTini #TealDrink #OvarianCancerAwareness #tealdiva
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By Keesha Carter
- Sep 2, 2016
- 1 min
7 Years Later And {K}ancer FREE...
I was diagnosed in 2009, at the tender age of 28, with stage 3 squamous cell carcinoma (cervical cancer). Being a young single mother with a 2 year old, it was by far the most surprising, devastating, and mind blowing experience I had experienced yet! With this news, my life took an 180 degree turn into walking in my purpose. After surgery to find out that the cancer had spread to my lymph nodes, several rounds of cisplatin - chemotherapy, internal and external radiation to
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By Erica Bell
- Sep 1, 2016
- 4 min
My Personal Journey With Adoption And Battling Ovarian Cancer
On November 18th 2010 at the age of 32 my life was changed forever. I went in for what was thought to be a surgery to remove a possible dermoid cyst on my right ovary as well as possible endometriosis and instead found out I had stage 3a Ovarian Cancer. I was a newlywed and my husband and I were going to try and start a family in the next couple of months. All of our dreams where gone in just three words “you have cancer”. As I recovered in the hospital I was trying to fig
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