"Ring the bell, baby!"
Basal cell skin cancer
A bone cancer, breast cancer, and melanoma survivor tells all.
I was diagnosed with cancer in late January 2015. Three tiny vaginal blood droplets were the single symptom alerting me to this emerging health scare.
Six lessons a metastatic melanoma survivor learned over five years of cancer survival.
At 73 years young, I am fully enjoying my life. I am blessed and awed by both the challenges thrown my way and the determination I didn’t know I had until I faced them.
This year I celebrate a special anniversary – 20 years as a cancer survivor.
Only 11 weeks after my dad was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer, I too became a member of the cancer club. I had melanoma.
“Fight every moment so that cancer is not the most interesting thing about you.”
This Pro Football Hall of Famer gets personal about melanoma.