Wayne Brock
My Cancer journey began in 2001 with the removal of my first kidney. A tumor was indicated via MRI and I was encouraged by my Dr. to remove the kidney as 85 percent of them are cancerous. After receiving the pathology report it was indicated that there was no cancer in the kidney.
Joe Brossard
I was first diagnosed with sarcoma cancer in April of 1999. That’s when I had surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The doctors there removed a tumor in my lower abdomen about the size of a grapefruit. It was determined, at that time, as a soft tissue sarcoma. Luckily for me it is a slow growing kind of cancer.
Joann Jefson
My cancer story starts back in early January 1998. I was having some medical problems and doctoring local without much relief. I was referred to a urologist who came to Worthington. After my exam in Worthington, Dr. Hartzell left the room and there I sat on a hard exam room chair and in all my life I have never felt so alone. I was so afraid of what he’d come back and tell me. When he did come back, he pulled up one of those hard chairs and sat right in front of me and said, “The news is not good.” I don’t remember ever hearing the word cancer in any of my previous doctoring. I did know Dr. Hartzell was a urologist. He proceeded to tell me that there was cancer in my left kidney and it should be removed as soon as possible.
