Cancer survivor knows struggle first-hand

When Phyllis Hancock was told she had cancer, she thought her life was over. Little did she know that it had only just begun.

In the summer of 2001, Hancock was shopping for a wedding dress with her 25-year-old daughter, Rachael Clyde. Symptoms similar to menopause, including cramping and eratic periods, began about four months previously and had persisted. But it wasn’t until she felt a stone-hard mass the size of her fist on the right side of her waist area in August that she began to worry.

The first thought that came to mind was that she might have cancer. After…