Many cancer survivors in the Valley say, even if you have not been diagnosed with cancer, it certainly still effects you.

Cancer can strike at any time and to anyone, even at a young age. WHSV's Tracy Turner was diagnosed just last year.

She recalls, "Everything rushes through your mind. You think that you're going to die. You think that you may have six months left on the Earth."

Skin cancer survivor Connie Hodge had 16 recurrences, surviving the worst type of skin cancer, called melanoma, 20 years ago. However the battle goes on for Hodge.

At the doctor's, she questions, "Is the big 'C' back again? Or am I good for another three months?"

It can catch you off-guard.

Breast cancer survivor Angie B. Williams says, "I never thought it could happen to me."

It did, but she says her faith in God and support from her loved ones helped her through the struggle.

Hodge states, "Cancer knows no boundaries, no skin color, no age limit. I mean, it hits everybody."

Turner, Hodge and Williams are survivors, but not everyone overcomes. Hodge lost her mother and father to cancer.

She says, "My mother, I've lost to mellamona. My father, to lung cancer."

Many family's have dealt with the man forms of cancer, including the Lees. Yuna Lee's grandfather, a Korean War hero and smart business man, died from lung cancer. He was not a smoker, just someone Lee considered great, especially when he snuck her candy when she wasn't allowed to have any.

It's for the families that a cure needs to be found. One can be found, but only if everyone works together. Williams is hopeful. She says people should have faith and not despair, because medical technology has come a long way.