Nine-time cancer survivor: ¡®Actually, I feel kind of lucky¡¯
Cancer has been a part of my life practically from Day 1.?
I had to have my left kidney removed when I was just 4 months old, after being diagnosed with a Wilms¡¯ tumor in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 1971. Since then, I¡¯ve had several recurrences of kidney cancer, and four additional cancer diagnoses: pheochromocytoma, soft tissue sarcoma, melanoma and another type of skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma.
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