Clifford 86, Patricia 86, & Nina Chieffo 55, Cary, North Carolina. Clifford was diagnosed in 2017 with a rare form of pancreatic cancer and now is disease-free. His wife Patricia was diagnosed in 1999 with breast cancer and then metastatic breast cancer in 2010, on the same day that her daughter Nina was with breast cancer. Nina is now cancer-free. The lifelong art lovers enjoy a winter afternoon together here at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.
Clifford, Patricia, and Nina Chieffo
" Confronting cancer was an odd, threatening, and scary thing for each of us. But we maintained a level playing field by not anticipating the future but rather forming a team with the great doctors, cancer support staff, and then with family and friends. From there we just take what comes and deal with hit.
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" As we say, we hug together and we fit, we’re both right-sided with mastectomies.
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" Like a puzzle.
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