First Annual ALX Pink Gala
The ALX Pink Gala, a formal event hosted by ALX Community and VIP Alexandria Magazine, turned Alexandria pink last month. The sold-out event was “pink tie optional” in support of breast cancer awar...
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Getting A Few Things Off Their Chest: The Dr. John and Liza Marshall Story
Life threw the Marshalls a curveball. In 2006 at the age of 43, Liza was diagnosed with high-risk breast cancer. Her husband John, a Georgetown University medical oncologist specializing in gastroi...
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Love Beyond Loss: A Father's Journey of Strength, Remembrance & Unwavering Commitment
There are certain things that a mother and a father each provide for their children, and they’re not always interchangeable. The hardest parts for me are the times that the kids just wish they had ...
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Against All Odds: An Expecting Mother's Battle with Breast Cancer
A new year was only hours away from starting when Aleseia Saunders received the news that she was cancer-free on December 31, 2014. “It was absolutely the best news I could receive on New Year’s Ev...
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Wife. Mom. Friend. Realtor. SURVIVOR.
When Amy Sills Eggers got the news that she was cancer-free, she gathered all of her medical papers and burned them in a bonfire to symbolize the end of the battle and the beginning of her future. ...
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How This Old Town Woman Is Thriving In The Face of Cancer
While Gayle Palmer may not be in remission and still hasn’t heard the words that she is cancer-free, she is staying positive that she’s won this round of the battle. She’s thriving in the face of t...
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Living In The Moment... With Breast Cancer
Roxana Guerra may never hear the words “cancer free,” but she’s living in the moment—every moment—as someone who will always be in treatment to stay free of active disease.
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Breast Cancer Survivor Living With Passion and Purpose
Sullivan received her diagnosis in June of 2013, three days before her daughter Annie’s 15th birthday, at the age of 49. Several months before, her annual mammogram detected calcifications, prompti...
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