After Doctors Deliver the News, This Olympic Hopeful Kept Pushing on

8. Thyroid Cancer

thenewscientist.com

When the cancer came back and appeared in her thyroid, it came back with a vengeance. The treatment for thyroid cancer was much more rigorous and caused her extreme pain. She pushed through with a brave face, and somehow, someway, managed to become a professional mid-distance runner and she had made quite the name for herself.