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I have been diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer, it had metastasized from a previous surgery from when I was first diagnosed with colon cancer in 2017!

“Mr. Marcus, you have kidney, lung, and brain cancer. Stage 4. We are going to monitor you for the next 24 hours but there is not much we can do for you here. You need to go home and start making arrangements. At most, you have two years to live.”

I had a red circle on the right side of my breast, and I had lost twenty pounds despite the fact that I was not on a diet. When I went to the doctor their tests couldn’t find anything wrong, so I told them to check out this red spot.

I had colorectal cancer last year. I had surgery that failed and ended up with a permanent colostomy, peritonitis, MRSA, and sepsis.

My husband was diagnosed with Stage 3 Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC). He had a total left nephrectomy on our 35th wedding Anniversary on Sept. 10, 2012. At that time there was no treatment that was available.

At the end of October my insurance was dropped. With all that going on — already devastated — I was scheduled for surgery during the first week of November 2018.

The pain got worse over the coarse of a week and I had trouble breathing.

Stage IV breast cancer is chronic, progressive and ultimately fatal.

I was initially diagnosed with stage 2b-3a breast cancer from the biopsy. This was due to size of tumor and regional lymph node involvement. The cancer was estrogen positive HER 2 negative.

My 41 year old daughter, Danielle, was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer de novo early January, 2019. She had mets to the liver and left iliac crest.

I was diagnosed with stage 2 triple negative breast cancer in September of 2017. I had a lumpectomy, 4 rounds chemo, and 21 sessions of radiation which I finished in March of 2018. In May of 2018 a lymph node was swelling and by June a spot on my skin had started growing.

Savanah was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, also known as stage lV, at the early age of 24 years old. Since her diagnosis, Savanah has done a genetic test that test many genetic mutations and all have come back negative, which have left her team of doctors very concerned.

Hi my name is Pam Dight. In 2017, I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer to my lung and adrenal gland. I started on KEYTRUDA and it took it all away in 4 treatments.

I was diagnosed with stage IV MBC to my bones April 2018. I am now 11 months out BC in remission and Mets healing. Life is good.

I had a ruptured Appendix and laid in bed on a cruise ship in pain for 5 nights. I got off the ship and went into the ER and was diagnosed with an Appendicitis. I had surgery and was ready to go home when the surgeon told me the thing they thought was an abscess was a Signet Ring Adenocarcinoma.

My father's journey with prostate cancer started 15 years ago when he was diagnosed at age 54. Since that time, he was also diagnosed with colon cancer and 15 years later, has metastatic prostate cancer to the bones, lungs, liver, and now the bile duct.

I had breast cancer in 2015 and had a double mastectomy. It was 2+ and was taking medicine to block the hormones. Then was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in my liver, limphord, and my lung. It is a triple negative.

I was diagnosed with Stage IV lobular breast cancer in November, 2017, when abnormalities were found during a routine bone density scan.

In April 2019, I found a lump. And life has now become a rollercoaster ride.

My cancer diagnosis came in June of 2016. My diagnosis was uterine serous cancer, an aggressive uterine cancer. I had a hysterectomy in June.

In January of 2017, at the ripe old age of 38, I felt a lump in my left breast. I was tandem nursing my almost 4 year old and almost 2 year old at the time. I started taking herbs and saw my lactation consultant since I’d already had a few clogs.

I was diagnosed with incurable Stage IV Gleason 9 prostate cancer de novo in 2015. I had a RALRP and later went on ADT, but, last year became refractory.

I had been living live as normal as possible since my diagnosis of DCIS stage 3 in 2005. Scans were sparse as they had considered me cancer free after so long. Then in 2014 I hurt my hip at work, 8 months and 3 different diagnoses.

I was diagnosed in October 2011. Originally at Stage 3, I found out later I was misdiagnosed. I was Stage IV denovo. I have gone through 4 years of non-stop chemo.

I was diagnosed metastatic de novo in 2017, and for the first year of my diagnosis, enjoyed relative stability. Despite the enormous challenges of finding a new rhythm with metastatic breast cancer, my disease was held at bay.

I have metastatic male breast cancer. The new drugs are keeping me going as I hit the five year mark with bone only MBC. We need more research that will lead to better treatments giving us better quality of life.

For me, it has taken a team of amazing doctors, each with different specialties. Primary Physician (Internal Medicine) who detected my elevated PSA at 141.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and it spread to my liver in 2006. [They] gave me year and half to live, but a new doctor saved my life.

I was originally diagnosed in 2014 with stage 2 infiltrate lobular carcinoma and was treated with lumpectomy, re-excision, chemotherapy and radiation.