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Darlene Kipling - Colon & Breast Cancer Survivor

A long-time employee of Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), Darlene Kipling has battled both breast cancer and colon cancer. In December of 1993, she was diagnosed with colon cancer. Three years later, in 1996, she found out she had breast cancer. In this video, Darlene talks about how she battled both disease and emerged as a survivor with the help of CTCA:

"You don't have to be at CTCA very long until you really recognize that there is a difference there. There is a difference in terms of how you are treated, in terms of the responsiveness of staff to you. In terms of other patients who are there at CTCA, encouraging and giving you hope-because they have already received hope. They have already received kindness and care and consideration.

We as cancer patients, for whatever reason, have been dealt this kind of pain. But, there is hope on the other side. And there is great life after cancer..."

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Darlene Kipling: And I can remember thinking ‘I wonder what it would be like to be told that you’ve got cancer’. It must be pretty frightening, pretty awful. Then I got cancer. I was diagnosed with colon cancer, one of the very biggest emotions that you feel is fear because the ‘C’ word and the ‘D’ word seem to automatically go together and I went out of there and I was sobbing and crying and saying ‘I don’t know what I am going to do but I know that if I don’t do something I am not going to live’.

I went from there to my oncologist who was so kind and compassionate over at Cancer Treatment Center and so he said to me, “I can fix this”, and within about two and a half months after the surgery I was actually back at work. I learnt volumes about how we need to be treated with compassion and care and concern because that’s a big part of getting well.

You don’t have to be at Cancer Treatment Center very long until you really recognize that there is a difference there. There is the difference in terms of how you are treated, in terms of the responsive staff to you, in terms of the other patients that are even there at Cancer Treatment Center encouraging and telling you, giving you hope, because they have already received hope. They have already received kindness and care and consideration.

We as cancer patients, for whatever reason, have been dealt this kind of pain but there is hope on the other side and there is great life after cancer.

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Colon Cancer Survivors

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Colon Cancer Survivor

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Tom Reese - Colon Cancer Survivor

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Do these videos feature real cancer patients?

Yes, the videos in this section feature real CTCA survivors with real stories to tell. These are not actors. They are cancer patients who came to CTCA and emerged as survivors. These stories are not scripted. They are personal accounts of people who found hope, and a voice, at CTCA. This is what they have to say, in their own words...

Why are some, not all, cancer types listed?

At CTCA, we treat individuals with a variety of cancer types. However, all of our survivors are not on film. If you don't see a survivor with the cancer type you're looking for, it only means we do not have a video at this time.

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