Do your best. Remember those words from our younger days? Remember when "Do your best" was a universal mantra of encouragement? The mindset to do your best, be the best and give others your best became...

Just 14 when she was diagnosed the first time with Leukemia, Monica Sandoval received some advice that has shaped the way she handles her battle with cancer. "A specialist told me, 'If you lay in...

An exciting weekend of family fun at Atlanta Motor Speedway turned into the start of a very different endurance race for Corinne Coning and her family. "There was a NASCAR race that weekend at the...

Tracy Phillips jokes that she always knew her husband Scott was special. So special that he got not one, but two kinds of lymphoma—Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's. "Just one of 100 people in the country...

Every newlywed expects some adjustments. Married life is different than single life. Maybe there's a new place to live, new responsibilities, new plans for the future. That's all to be expected. Cancer is not to...

Karen Bova has fought cancer twice and each time brought a different lesson. In 2006, she was diagnosed with cancer in the right breast—ductal carcinoma in situ or inside the milk ducts. "Because it was...

We've been introducing you to Heroes in Gwinnett Magazine since 2009. Men, women and children. Our neighbors, our family, our friends. Remarkable individuals all. We wanted to celebrate survivorship by telling the stories of...

When her surgeon called with the results of her biopsy, Lisa Roulhac was taking care of her two-year-old grandson. "I'll never forget that day. He was lying on the bed. My surgeon called me. ‘It's...

The first time she had cancer, Paulette Zinkann was just too busy for it. It was 1995 and she was 39 years old, working as a preschool teacher. Her breast cancer was found and diagnosed...

In retrospect, Kim Houston will tell you she should have acted sooner. "I was fatigued. I could never get rid of that lethargic feeling—like you're coming down with the flu. I was having some...