MyDukeCancerStory

When Robert “Bob” List, 73, a retired colonel with the U.S. Marine Corps, was diagnosed with stage 2 prostate cancer, he immediately began to research the “enemy” threat.

There wasn’t much that could slow down Keith Nguyen, a Merck pharmaceutical employee who described himself as being “in perfect health.”

Bob Thomas, who was given a terminal metastatic cancer diagnosis nearly eight years ago, is not precisely sure exactly which cancer he survived.

Friends Tina Escalona and Jack Walker have supported each other through their cancer journeys and believe it's their mission to help others with the disease.

Roshanda “Wyndi” Smith, who runs a stainless-steel jewelry business, is living with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer — staying strong in spirit, on her weakest days.

When 18 years ago Leslie Gartenberg and her husband decided to move to North Carolina, one of their criteria was finding a home near good healthcare.