Saturday, November 07, 2015

Day 7: AnneMarie Ciccarella, "I got a bully cancer, no cancer is a good cancer"

Lung Cancer Awareness Month 2015
Day 7: AnneMarie Ciccarella
"I got a bully cancer, no cancer is a good cancer"
Twitter handle: @chemobrainfog

AnneMarie Ciccarella is a 58 year old passionate Lung Cancer advocate although she was diagnosed and treated with breast cancer, which she is currently NED.

Why is she so dedicated to lung cancer advocacy? 

 She lost her father to complications from treatment of this horrible disease on July 19, 2007. His body couldn't take the second round of chemotherapy. In addition to her father, she lost her grandfather when he was merely 55 to lung. These thoughts still bring tears to her eyes. Finally, she lost her high school love to lung cancer not too long ago. So three of the first men she loved were all taken too early by this disease.

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