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Article: Fight with cancer deepened woman's faith
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- September 26, 2009
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Brooke Smith, a victim of a rare cancer who responded to her
complication by making jokes and reading the Bible, died Friday in
Roanoke. She was 22.
Smith was featured in a 2008 Roanoke Times article that described
how her budding career as a hairstylist and hobby as a fearless
women's roller derby skater were stopped by a cancer that affects
about 100 people a year in the United States.
She was diagnosed that year with alveolar soft part sarcoma, a
slow-moving malignancy physicians originally expected wouldn't take
its final toll for 10 to 15 years. But her friends and relatives
say she sought refuge in God -- even after treatments didn't stop
tumor growth, and physicians ...