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Back in the Saddle:
The Hal Harris Story
Hal remembers his friend’s words. “He said he would’ve been okay if he would’ve had regular prostate exams,” Hal recalls. So after his friend died of prostate cancer, Hal Harris, a 45 year-old cattle rancher, began to have regular physical exams. That decision may have saved his life.
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Still Flying:
The Larry Grimmett Story
“When the doctor told me I had cancer, I just glazed over,” Jack recalled. “He was telling about my options for treatment, but I didn’t hear much after he said the ‘C’ word. That word just kept going over and over in my mind.”
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A Very Good Number:
The Jack Floegel Story
As Larry heard the doctor’s diagnosis, memories of his father came back. He remembered that his had died from prostate cancer only a few years earlier, and now he has prostate cancer. Larry Grimmett, a 56 year-old financial advisor wasn’t ready for what he saw his father go through.
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Tammy Sherner:
Over the Edge
Like most women, I know the importance of breast cancer screening. For each birthday I give myself a little “gift”, my annual mammogram. In 2007, my “gift” came with a pink bow - I had breast cancer.
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Diane Schooley-Pettis:
Never Give Up
Diane Schooley-Pettis was looking forward to a basketball game in San Antonio more than five years ago. However, pain marked the beginning of a tough road ahead for Schooley-Pettis. Upon her return to Boise, the 41-year-old was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer.
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Janelle Sweaney:
Looking Back, Looking Forward
You've heard them called “the good old days.” Maybe they're those idyllic, childhood moments spent playing in the afternoons. For Janelle Sweaney, the good old days weren't that long ago.
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Trini Parsons:
Cancer Scare Strengthens Connection to God
Trini Parsons has seen her share of women with breast cancer. As an x-ray technologist at SARMC, that's hardly surprising. But in the summer of 2005, she came across a cancer patient in an unusual place—her own mirror.
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Carl Engle:
A Modern Miracle
Amazingly, two weeks after surgery for prostate cancer, Carl Engle hiked five miles in the Boise foothills. To his buddy, who also had prostate cancer surgery, and has a 4-inch scar across his belly to prove it, that was a miracle.
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