Ed Yakacki has been diagnosed with cancer three times, including a stage four colorectal cancer diagnosis. Like so many survivors, he fell into a dark place after learning of his disease. “I was fighting for my old life, not realizing that my old life was over,” Ed says. “It was going to be a new normal.”
Ed was finally able to come to terms with his cancer when he got into advocacy, and learned that he wasn’t alone. “How I came out of this dark place was becoming an advocate, that was a real big turning point in my … coming to terms with my first diagnosis,” he says.
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