In January 2023, Patrick Donnelly, 57, a husband and devoted father of three, received life-altering news. He was diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer at Cancer Care Associates of York. This news devastated his family, but Patrick was determined to fight, supported by his family, faith, medical team, and Vickie’s Angel Foundation. His story is truly one of strength. 

Cancer may invade one body, but it impacts whole families.

Paul Mickley has cancer. He's been under treatment since March. He's sick and he's hurting. He's 56, with a wife and five kids. The oldest is married. Just made him a grandpa. The youngest is 9 with special needs. He can't work now. Can't support them.

No woman wants to find a lump in her breast. Especially a 38-year-old single mother who is so steady she has held the same job at a dental practice for 19 years. But it happened to Michelle Mendez in April, and it has turned her life upside down.

When a woman is 33 years old and physically fit, when she focuses on serving healthy food to her family, when she's busy just living life, she doesn't expect a random pain to be cancer. And yet, for Megan Onofrey, that's what happened.

"You gotta do what you gotta do," says George-Ann Sweger, and if she's gotta have surgery on her birthday, then that's what she will do.

Anna Lowman's body was telling her something was wrong. Doctors removed her gall bladder in October, thinking that might be the source of her problem. When the pain persisted, additional tests revealed she had Stage 3 pancreatic cancer. It was a terrifying diagnosis for the 50-year-old mother of a high school student.

Hello! My name is Keevah Brown, and I was diagnosed with Stage 3 Rectal cancer on January 25, 2023. At the time I was a full time Kitchen Manager at a group home in Harrisburg, Pa. I had been enjoying my “workaholic” lifestyle/career for over 30 years at the time.

After finding out the big lump in my tongue was squamous cell carcinoma instead of an ulcer you immediately start asking ok how do we fight this?

For Dorris Winters, it was the electric bill. There she was, weeks in Hershey undergoing cutting edge stem cell treatment for B-cell lymphoma, and that meter at her home in East Prospect, York County, just kept on turning.

By the time Tina Stine heard about Vickie's Angel Foundation, she had done some dumpster diving at Sheetz. Tina was hungry. She had paid her utility bills and put gas in her truck. That left nothing for food. When Mickey Minnich called, she hadn't eaten for three days.