Jenny Young stood at the podium, before a backdrop of pinhole lights that resembled a sky full of stars.
“Many, many people have told me that I am a walking miracle,” Young said into the microphone, to an audience of donors, philanthropists and cancer survivors like herself.
It was the evening of Oct. 21, at the One Life Gala, a fundraiser event in support of the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation, in Toronto’s Royal York Hotel.
“What people must understand is that this is no miracle. I am here because of innovative discoveries and cancer breakthroughs,” she said.
A full body scan revealed the cancer was stage four, a measurement of disease that, not too long ago, was considered a death sentence.
“I had no idea there was a ticking time bomb in me,” Young said to the Gala participants.
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