If you want to know about student life at Main Stream University, Linda can tell you. She is associate dean of students there. And, if you want to know about cancer therapy, she can tell you about that, too. She is a cancer survivor.

It started in July 1998, just as she was about to leave on vacation. Linda noticed that her abdomen felt "funny." By August, she was in Home Hospital in Lafayette where she underwent a nephrectomy (surgical removal of a kidney) for renal cell carcinoma. All went well for two years.

Then in May 2000, an x-ray during a routine physical revealed a suspicious image on the lung. She was told that her cancer had spread to her lungs.