Sue, Ovarian Cancer that Spread Throughout the Body
A 68-year-old grandmother of three from Bethesda, Md., Sue describes herself as "kind of a jock." Her passion is golf and she loves running around in the backyard with her 8-year-old twin granddaughters and 6-year-old grandson.
But, in 2003, the discovery of a tumor in her abdomen – the result of metastasized ovarian cancer that she had been diagnosed with six years prior – threatened to drastically change the life she enjoyed.
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Scott, Prostate Cancer
What he thought was an ordinary drive home from watching a spring training baseball game in Ft. Myers, Fla., turned out to be a defining moment in Scott’s life.
"I was devastated," said Scott, who had just turned 61. "I thought I was too healthy and too young. I thought I was invincible and that there was no way my biopsy would show cancer."
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Suzanne, Brain Tumor
For 34-year-old Suzanne, nothing is more important than being the best mother possible to her young children. But in the fall of 2005, a discovery during a routine brain scan threatened to hinder the Phoenix, Ariz., mom’s ability to care for her children.
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Danny, Stage IV Melanoma that Spread to the Lung
In December 2004, there was a death warrant out for Danny. The 55- year-old Houston native had a routine CT scan that revealed a tumor the size of a lime on his left lung. A biopsy showed that the tumor was malignant, a result of skin cancer that he had been diagnosed with almost four years before.
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Donald, Brain Tumor and Prostate Cancer
"When you’re diagnosed with a brain tumor, you don’t hear much more after they say the words ‘brain tumor,’" said Donald, a 71-year old from Mountain View, Calif. "I was shocked. I had no reason to believe there was anything that seriously wrong with me."
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Sean, Orbital Lymphangioma
"I was kind of scared before I went in," Sean admitted, because his surgery a year before resulted in a hospital stay and a lot of facial bruising. "But the CyberKnife treatment was easy. I just went to sleep while they did it, and then went back to the hotel with my parents."
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Karen, Bile Duct Cancer
Karen Vinci is a 57-year-old native Californian who was born and raised in the Bay Area and continues to work at her family's restaurant, The Fat Lady, a long-time landmark and one of Oakland’s finest eateries.
In 2003, after a routine physical, Karen was diagnosed with bile duct cancer (Klatskin tumor in the left & right hepatic ducts).
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Charles, Prostate Cancer
Charles knew just who to turn to when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. His daughter Janice isn’t a surgeon or a urologist, but she is a radiation therapist who works everyday with cancer patients at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.
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