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MY ROAD BEGAN WITH MY MOM...
Welcome to my story.... My name is Cydney Miller and I am the reigning Mrs. Tennessee International 2010. My story begins when my mom was diagnosed with colon cancer. She had lost her mother to melanoma and aunt to breast cancer and was then facing her own battle. A few years later she would find out that her father had prostate cancer and that his wife would be diagnosed with colon cancer.
Larry and Janet Sizeler, My Mom and Dad
Now, winning her second battle (this time with lung cancer), my mother is a living example that early detection saves lives and that smart lifestyle choices can help prevent lives from needing to be saved.
Over the years, I have also become the granddaughter, friend, neighbor and colleague of heroes who have fought their own battles with colon, breast, prostate, stomach, skin and lung cancer. Some have lost the battle, some have won and others are still fighting.
Luke and I with Grandpa, Carolyn and Mom...our family of heroes
I don't know why cancer chose to affect those I love.
I do know that I have been called to do something about it.
I have answered that calling by partnering with the American Cancer Society to promote the importance of early detection and prevention and with ACS CAN to advocate for legislation that will make early detection opportunities available to more people. I also support Susan G. Komen for the Cure, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, The Oral Cancer Foundation, Minnie Pearl Foundation and many other organizations that support cancer patients and their families. The world of pageantry has also offered me a very powerful vehicle for promoting the message. I am so blessed to have had opportunities that have been afforded me through these organizations and by the extraordinary people in them.
I created The Road to the Cure site to tell my story, to open up to those I meet and let you all know that none of us travel alone. We are the ROAD CREW. We are all out on the road fighting for our heroes and doing all we can to honor them. I have found great peace in sharing my story over the years and on this site and want others to have that same opportunity. So, this site isn't just about me and my story. It is about all of us...about all of our heroes...and about the power we have to win the battle.
I hope that visiting this site, reading these stories and learning more about the power of early detection and prevention of cancer will help you or someone you love. By embracing that message, we honor the heroes who fought before us and can keep those who follow from ever having to fight.
...The Road will lead us to a cure.
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