Survivor Series

For Valparaiso resident Cheryl Highlan, it started in July of 2022 with a routine mammogram. The doctors found a lump that, when the biopsy results came back, revealed that Highlan had breast cancer. Highlan’s care team at Northwest Health - Porter...

St. Louis, Missouri native Pamela “Pam” Barton had only moved to Hobart a couple months before her diagnosis. In the fall of 2022, she decided she would go in to see the doctor for a routine check up. Despite having little signs or symptoms, her...

Valparaiso resident Karen Nelson is a breast cancer survivor. Despite having gone through a hard battle, Nelson used the experience as a growing one rather than a negative one. Nelson used a positive attitude and faith to guide her through the...

Valparaiso resident Roberta Tuft is a thyroid cancer survivor who has survived cancer not once but twice. Her journey started just before Thanksgiving in 2006. She went in to see Dr. John Carter, her primary doctor in Hobart because she was having...

Merrillville resident Joy Johnson always goes in for an annual mammogram. However, in the year 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Johnson was nervous to go. Now just over two years cancer free, Johnson is thanking her blessings that she...

Andrea “Andie” Wolfinsohn’s life took a drastic turn when she went in for her yearly mammogram almost four years ago. The results prompted her radiologist to schedule an additional ultrasound and biopsy, and the latter came back with the...

COVID-19 was a rough time for everybody, but for Micki Pressley, circumstances made the time incredibly difficult. During the outbreak of COVID-19, Pressley went in for her annual mammogram, where a mass was found. She had a biopsy, and it was proven...

For Karen Anaszewicz, it all happened in the span of two weeks that began at St. Catherine Hospital. She found a suspicious lump and got a mammogram; her doctors then sent her for an ultrasound and a biopsy to get more information. Days after the...

In August 2020, Louie Maldonado, a resident of Michigan City, went in for a colonoscopy after noticing he was starting to have stomach issues. It was then that it was determined he was indeed having problems, and Maldonado was diagnosed with stage...

After going through an annual mammogram, Stacy Maugans found out that she had an aggressive breast cancer. Doctors found it early, meaning that the cancer was treatable. Maugans had stage one breast cancer, having three different types of tumor...