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District of ColumbiaArmy Veteran Healthy After Ewing Sarcoma
Brandi Benson spent most of the fall and winter of 2008 working out with her Army unit in Iraq. She felt tired all the time but wouldn’t find out until weeks later that she had Ewing sarcoma.
Cervical Cancer Survivor Teaches Others to Speak Out
Tamika Felder wants her generation to be the last women to ever get cervical cancer. “I don’t want anybody to have to go through what I went through,” she says.
Survivor of Adolescent Cancer Takes Nothing for Granted
Julie Turner describes herself as an average 56-year-old woman, a mother and grandmother, a retired school administrator, an American Cancer Society volunteer, and a very lucky person. A survivor of Hodgkin Disease from age 17, Turner says she is amazed at everything she has in her life today.
How Martial Arts Helped a Testicular Cancer Survivor
The physical and mental conditioning Michael Veltri developed during the course of his training in martial arts served him well when he faced his greatest challenge, cancer.