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Alyssa was 23 in early 2018, studying film in Boston, when she first felt a lump in her breast. She dismissed it. She was enjoying feeling confident and care-free after an adolescence dealing with bullies and grappling with her faith growing up in New York. But one night in June that year, a friend she’d met … Read more
In a stunning situation, a Florida husband and wife who were diagnosed with brain tumors just four months apart have beaten the odds and have both completed treatment. In March 2018, Grady Elwell, 42, was diagnosed with a rare malignant brain tumor that would require months of surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation. As his wife, Beth … Read more
Madelyn Frederick was always known as the ‘clumsy’ member of her family. She thought it was nothing more than a lack of balance that left her constantly stumbles and unable to ride a bike. But at 13 years old, after she was rushed to the hospital in her hometown of Dallas, Texas, with a higher … Read more
A pregnant woman was diagnosed with cancer after doctors stumbled across her tumour when her growing baby aggravated her symptoms. Rachel Avon was forced to have her appendix removed while six months’ pregnant after developing sharp pains in her right side. While operating on what they thought was appendicitis, the surgeons discovered the now 34-year-old … Read more
When Jaci Hermstad could barely lift her leg to get on her horse Bud in November last year, she knew that something was very wrong. She tried not to over-react, but in the back of her mind memories of when her identical twin sister Alex battled a rare childhood version of the neurological disease ALS … Read more
In November 2018, Ashley Huffman was shocked to discover she had cancer in her left breast at age 32. She decided to undergo genetic testing shortly thereafter and learned she had a mutation that gave her a 70 percent risk of developing the disease. Doctors recommended that her twin sister, Danielle Jones, undergo the same … Read more
Ryan Cameron, 36, of Bedfordshire, was shocked at a diagnosis which normally comes over the age of 50. He has been called a ‘grumpy git’ due to having less facial expressions.
Eight children have been diagnosed with cancer at the same elementary school – prompting parents’ fears that a cell phone tower could be to blame. The affected students at Weston Elementary School in Ripon are all under the age of 10, each with different types of cancer: brain, kidney, liver and lymphoma. There is scant … Read more