A dance, not a war

12 mins | Dec 17, 2021

One woman's resolve to beat cancer during COVID. When Djohariah Singer was diagnosed with Stage 4 ovarian cancer, she was expected to beat the disease. But when the pandemic hit months after her first round of surgery, her cancer spread and made her fight to stay alive much more complicated. Ricky Carioti and Annie Gowen explore Singer's powerful story: "My life isn't about beating cancer, my life is going to be how do I live with cancer," Djohariah Singer said. "And the more I can learn to dance with this, the more gracefully I dance with it, the longer I will live."

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