
I sent all my cancer scans to my pediatrician, who combined the power of science with the power of belief and helped me through the difficult time.

Eugenia Mancini Horan is an artist, lifelong anxiety sufferer and an early patient of humor and laughter as her medicine. She spent 2019 finding then fighting stage 4 lung cancer and defeating it by 2020, most likely one of the coolest things she’s done. That year in the medical system an end-stage cancer patient with 0% odds gave her a unique perspective about illness and survival. She proudly mothers two questionably behaved dogs and is married to the man who carried her everywhere that year she couldn’t walk. Gina has aspirations to change the world of oncology and also wants to be on the "Great British Baking Show," with only a fundamental lack of skill keeping her from the show. Nothing stops her battle for better patient care.

I sent all my cancer scans to my pediatrician, who combined the power of science with the power of belief and helped me through the difficult time.

After being diagnosed with late-stage cancer, I learned many lessons, including the fact that I had to be my own best advocate.

When going through treatment for advanced-stage lung cancer, people would often talk to me like I was a child, or ignore me altogether and speak to my husband.

Published: September 12th 2022 | Updated: