Positivity: ‘Miracle girl’ keeps beating the odds
Three-time survivor eager for cancer fundraiser
Local News - Thursday, June 07, 2007 @ 08:00People who think cancer research isn’t making any progress should look at Pat Giroux and the 186 people she will be walking with this weekend during the West Nipissing Relay for Life at Goulard Park.
Giroux, 60, is referred to by friends as the “miracle girl” after winning three battles against cancer. She has been beating the odds since she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 48.
“If I had to have cancer I thank God every day that he gave it to me at a time when my two boys were raised,” Giroux said from her West Nipissing home overlooking Lake Nipissing. “I’ve had a good 12 years since my first diagnosis and I’m determined to have another 12 good ones.”
Giroux, chairwoman of the survivor lap for the West Nipissing Relay for Life event and a member of the West Nipissing Red Hats, first learned she had cancer in 1995.
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