The terms can be confusing — advanced cancer, metastatic cancer, late-stage cancer, stage 4 cancer, secondary cancer, recurrent cancer.

First it was bone cancer and the loss of her lower leg that sidelined Kara Wolter from her passion, swimming.

After a mother’s sudden diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer, one family, along with staff at Michigan Medicine, came together to focus on

How one Mid-Michigan patient has found new opportunities to give back.

A patient reflects on a long and unexpected medical journey with little chance of survival, and how she reclaimed life.