Celebrating milestones – Member Cancerversaries
Elizabeth Caples Rogers
Austin, Texas. Celebrated 2 years in May 2021.
“Faith and the love of my family drive my will to live. Research and science give me the tool to do so! Thank you, ALK Positive community, for all you’ve done to help me reach my second cancerversary!”
Joyce Chohany
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Celebrated 2 years in April 2021.
“More Research=More Life!”
Anne Courter
Canon City, Colorado. Celebrating 9 years in November 2021.
“If God showed us the whole journey, we'd never take the first step. Be Where Your Feet Are!!!”
Jamie Gibbard
Kent, United Kingdom. Celebrated 2 years in April 2021.
“I am so grateful for ALK Positive, Inc. and the support group!"
Julie Jordan-Brandt
Oneida, Illinois. Celebrated 10 ½ years.
“I am enjoying living and loving for 10 1/2 years! My TKI Xalkori is giving me more time to enjoy my grandchildren.”
Laura Levaas
Huntsville, Alabama. Celebrating 4 years in June 2021.
"Don't let the turkeys get you down."
Sam McBride
Mobile, Alabama. Celebrated 6 years in April 2021.
“Thanks to your advocacy and research dollars I am living life to the fullest!”
Lori Morris
Utah. Celebrated 3 years in January 2021.
“Cheers to everyone sharing & staying alive!!”
Hanka Mosher
Salmon Arms, British Columbia, Canada. Celebrated 4 years in April 2021.
“I’m very grateful to our ALK family for all the support over the years. There is so much hope and good living to be had even in our situation.”
Joe Newman
Union City, New Jersey. Celebrated 2 years in January 2021.
“I was diagnosed 3 days after our daughters were born in 2019. Over two years later, I am feeling well and thriving, and so are the girls!”
Trish Nolbertowicz
Louisville, Kentucky. Celebrating 8 years in November 2021.
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean!”
John Pender
Bethlehem, Georgia. Celebrated 6 years in December 2020.
“Live life to the fullest! And, Go Research!”
Jane Poole
Wake Forest, North Carolina. Celebrated 4 years in March 2021.
“I feel so incredibly lucky that I have ALK-positive cancer, with available TKIs, AND that I have had an ‘easy” cancer journey. I was on Xalkori for 17 months and have been on Alectinib for 30 months and counting, and have been stable ever since.”
Kirk Smith
Athens, Georgia. Celebrating 7.5 years in June 2021.
“Don’t waste your cancer” “LIVE!
Jeff Sturm
Lafayette, California. Celebrated 6 years.
“I’m extraordinarily grateful to be here after more than 6 years and to be able to ride again and training for a 100-mile ride in the fall.”