Survivor Stories

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Lee Ann

Hello everyone, I went to the ER on February 7, 2021, with chronic pain in my abdomen. I had a CT scan which showed possibly 2 masses in my abdomen. The two masses were actually one mass that were pus...
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Rhia

I first met the ‘silent cancer’ in October of 2023. While on vacation the first week of October 2023 I felt generally unwell and my belly seemed more bloated than ever before. By the time ...
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Tracy

My mom (Sheila Hutchinson) and I were asked about sharing her cancer journey on the TN in Teal page after her last big update. I’ve just now been able to put a summary together and went to share it on...
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Staci

I was 53 years old when I was diagnosed with synchronous primary cancer. That means I had 2 primary cancers at once, ovarian (stage 1A) and endometrial (stage 3A). Symptoms started out as spotting whi...
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Sheila

In June of 2022, after more than a year of various health problems that just never went away, my mom was admitted to our local hospital in very bad condition and at what seemed like death’s door...
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Bahallah

I was diagnosed 2013 after being so sick for a year and lost so much weight, weighing @ 105lbs. And didn’t have an appetite and very swollen in my abdomen! I would have been a stage 1C but the dr that...
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Holly

My name is Holly and I was diagnosed with stage III Ovarian Cancer back in 2009 at the age of 32. I underwent two surgeries which ended up being a complete hysterectomy and partial removal of my small...
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Kristi

April 3, 2015 is the day my life changed. Small Cell Ovarian Cancer is rare, aggressive and almost always fatal. I was stage 4, given a year at the most to live. It was a long, tough battle over 6+ ye...
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Felicia

My story began in 2019 when I went to the doctor with pain on my right side. My doctor rushed me to the ER, suspecting appendicitis. At the ER, a CT scan revealed a mass, but the only follow-up was a ...
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