On the day Grace Taylor moved into her dorm for her sophomore year at Harvard, she learned she had metastatic thyroid cancer that had spread to her lymph nodes. The lacrosse player from Dedham, Massachussetts, was also stunned to learn from her doctor that she'd likely had the disease for five years without knowing. “Nothing felt wrong. I wasn’t sick,” Taylor, 20, told TODAY.com. Doctors operated for 17 hours over two days to remove the tumor and avoid damaging a nearby nerve that controls the voice box. Taylor talked to us about her "grueling" recovery, how she balanced it with college life, and her triumphant return to the field. Read her story here. |
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