The Song Must Go On
Melissa Marshall chalked her symptoms up to trouble with her hip and age.
A longtime Atlantic City singer and performer, Melissa’s hip had become so painful that she was preparing for hip replacement surgery. She thought that the other symptoms she was having at the time — bowel irregularity, bloating, rectal bleeding, and pain — were a result of turning 50 and her reduced physical activity.
But when she described the symptoms to a close friend before a planned hip replacement surgery, she realized something else might be afoot.
“She didn’t even let me finish my explanation,” Melissa recalls. “She told me to get off the phone right away and call my doctor. Before that moment, cancer wasn’t even a thought in my mind.”
No You Cant’cer (Ballad Arrangment)
2017 Hero of Hope Patient Award winner Melissa Marshall wrote the song “No You Cant’cer” as a way to help her cope with her colon cancer diagnosis. As a performer, she was inspired to use music as a creative outlet to tell her cancer that it was not going to get the best of her and to help empower other people going through the same difficult journey.
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