Katie Coleman, Founder at OncoLogic Solutions, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“I’m beyond honored to share that I’ve joined the AACR Foundation’s Board of Trustees. Cancer Research Saves Lives, a mission deeply personal to me, as cancer research also saved mine.
As I work on plans with my husband to celebrate our 5 year anniversary this month, I wanted to share a quick story that highlights my why.
Five years ago I was wrapping up final travel plans for my husband and me to elope to Southern Utah to be married. We had just moved in with each other and had known each other less than a year when the world came to a halt in 2020. Despite being locked inside spending all day, every day together, we still fell madly in love. Now completely inseparable, we knew we didn’t want to wait until restrictions lifted to begin our lives together. So we eloped to Southern Utah where we exchanged our vows and were married cliffside by my best friend of over 20 years as our officiant and our photographer as our witness.
That evening we watched the sunset over the valley while we daydreamed about our future, the house we were building, and the family we hoped to one day raise in it.
At the time, we were blissfully unaware that cancer was already waging a war in my body and that just two months later, our vows would be put to the test when I’d be diagnosed with stage IV cancer in the ER on NYE. Never in a million years did we expect that ‘in sickness’ part to come so soon.
Fast forward to today, and now I find myself once again wrapping up final travel plans but this time to celebrate the 5 year anniversary that we never thought we’d see. The one cancer threatened to take from us, but one we get to celebrate with me now off treatment and with no active cancer because cancer research saves lives. A cause I believe in with every fiber of my being, knowing cancer research saved mine.
I couldn’t be more honored to join the Board of Trustees with the American Association for Cancer Research and look forward to helping move the mission forward in hopes that one day every person affected by cancer has their own success story to share.”
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