{"id":27268,"date":"2006-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/"},"modified":"2006-10-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T05:00:00","slug":"what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"What it means to be a cancer survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n

\n\"picture
\n<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n

\n
\nBob Husz
\n<\/FONT>
\n<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n

\n\"picture
\n<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n

\n
\nJason Schoo
\n<\/FONT>
\n<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n

\n\"picture
\n<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n

\n
\nJacqueline Hill
\n<\/FONT>
\n<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n

\n\"picture
\n<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n

\n
\nBernie Duhaime
\n<\/FONT>
\n<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n

\n\"picture
\n<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n

\n
\nCheryle Rambo
\n<\/FONT>
\n<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n

\n\"picture
\n<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n

\n
\nLola Martin
\n<\/FONT>
\n<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n

\n\"picture
\n<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n

\n
\nArdith Hopp
\n<\/FONT>
\n<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n<\/TABLE>Several cancer survivors who were treated by UNMC physicians attended a news conference on Friday with legendary newsman and Ambassador of Hope award recipient, Tom Brokaw.<\/p>\n

Each survivor was asked what it meant to live through the disease. Here are their answers.<\/p>\n

Lymphoma survivor Bob Husz:<\/b> “I used to think you had to go 90 miles an hour all the time. I don’t think that anymore. But I’ll tell you, the care I got here was tops.”<\/p>\n

Head and neck cancer survivor Jason Schoo:<\/b> “It’s an accomplishment I hope I can share with others. I want to let them know that I’ve been there and there is light at the end of the tunnel.”<\/p>\n

Breast cancer survivor Jacqueline Hill:<\/b> “It means that I overcame my illness, even if it’s only for the time being. Now I can reach out and share my experience with others.”<\/p>\n

Breast cancer survivor Jo Meier:<\/b> “It means I’m alive. It means I did something right, although I don’t know what I did.”<\/p>\n

Prostate cancer survivor Bernie Duhaime: <\/b>“I’m proud of it now. When I found out I was more shocked. Now I want to do all I can to help the next generation get through it as well.”<\/p>\n

Colon cancer survivor Cheryle Rambo:<\/b> “My daughter had been after me to get a colonoscopy because I was having some intestinal issues that I didn’t think were serious. When she was pregnant in 2004, she refused to tell me the sex of the baby until I got a colonoscopy. I got the procedure and it caught the cancer. Colon cancer is so silent; it won’t always give you the kind of symptoms that make you want to run to the doctor. Mine was painless and quite a surprise to me. I was very lucky that it was caught when it was. Now I tell everybody to get one. It’s the only way you can really know you’re cancer free.”<\/p>\n

Breast cancer survivor Lola Martin:<\/b> “It means life. It means I have more time to do the things I’d hoped for. It makes me realize how blessed I am. It’s life itself.”<\/p>\n

Lymphoma survivor Bill Penry: <\/b>“It means that I get to enjoy a life that I was intended to live. In 1993 and 1994, I was told I wasn’t going to survive. I’m a very lucky person. Of course I know it wasn’t luck, it’s the work that they do here.”<\/p>\n

Pancreatic cancer survivor Ardith Hopp:<\/b> “Surviving cancer means that I was able to become a grandma. I have two grandchildren, Kirsten, 3, and Barrett, 1. I now live with insulin injections, bouts of severe jaundice and a bad itching all over my body at times. But, I also have my grandchildren and the ability to be an inspiration to other people unlucky enough to get pancreatic cancer. I’m still here.”<\/p>\n

Breast cancer survivor Michelle Sanzovrin:<\/b> “It just means that I’m cancer free and able to enjoy my children growing up. Now I recognize what’s most important in life.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cancer survivors at Friday’s news conference with Tom Brokaw share what it meant to live through the disease. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","department-unmc-today-todays-headlines"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat it means to be a cancer survivor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cancer survivors at Friday's news conference with Tom Brokaw share what it meant to live through the disease.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What it means to be a cancer survivor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cancer survivors at Friday's news conference with Tom Brokaw share what it meant to live through the disease.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-10-16T05:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HuszBob2006oct.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chuck Brown\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@unmc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@unmc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chuck Brown\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Chuck Brown\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/f99efde0b91c6c20a256357d501c35d3\"},\"headline\":\"What it means to be a cancer survivor\",\"datePublished\":\"2006-10-16T05:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/\"},\"wordCount\":539,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HuszBob2006oct.jpg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/\",\"name\":\"What it means to be a cancer survivor\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HuszBob2006oct.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2006-10-16T05:00:00+00:00\",\"description\":\"Cancer survivors at Friday's news conference with Tom Brokaw share what it meant to live through the disease.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HuszBob2006oct.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HuszBob2006oct.jpg\",\"width\":190,\"height\":143},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"What it means to be a cancer survivor\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/\",\"name\":\"Newsroom\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization\",\"name\":\"University of Nebraska Medical Center\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/overview-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/overview-1.png\",\"width\":500,\"height\":153,\"caption\":\"University of Nebraska Medical Center\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/unmc\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/iamunmc\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/UNMCEDU\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/f99efde0b91c6c20a256357d501c35d3\",\"name\":\"Chuck Brown\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/author\/f4b9ec30ad9f68f89b29639786cb62ef\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"What it means to be a cancer survivor","description":"Cancer survivors at Friday's news conference with Tom Brokaw share what it meant to live through the disease.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"What it means to be a cancer survivor","og_description":"Cancer survivors at Friday's news conference with Tom Brokaw share what it meant to live through the disease.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/","og_site_name":"Newsroom","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu","article_published_time":"2006-10-16T05:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HuszBob2006oct.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Chuck Brown","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@unmc","twitter_site":"@unmc","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Chuck Brown","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/"},"author":{"name":"Chuck Brown","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/f99efde0b91c6c20a256357d501c35d3"},"headline":"What it means to be a cancer survivor","datePublished":"2006-10-16T05:00:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/"},"wordCount":539,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HuszBob2006oct.jpg","inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/","name":"What it means to be a cancer survivor","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HuszBob2006oct.jpg","datePublished":"2006-10-16T05:00:00+00:00","description":"Cancer survivors at Friday's news conference with Tom Brokaw share what it meant to live through the disease.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HuszBob2006oct.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HuszBob2006oct.jpg","width":190,"height":143},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/10\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-a-cancer-survivor\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"What it means to be a cancer survivor"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/","name":"Newsroom","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization","name":"University of Nebraska Medical Center","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/overview-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/overview-1.png","width":500,"height":153,"caption":"University of Nebraska Medical Center"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu","https:\/\/x.com\/unmc","https:\/\/instagram.com\/iamunmc","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/UNMCEDU"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/f99efde0b91c6c20a256357d501c35d3","name":"Chuck Brown","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/author\/f4b9ec30ad9f68f89b29639786cb62ef\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}