In 2003, Bethany Brown found out she’d gotten an interview for nursing school. She tried calling her father to share the good news, but he didn’t answer. When she finally got ahold of him, Bethany gave her father a hard time for not answering earlier.

That’s when he told her why he’d been reluctant to take her call: her biopsy results had come back. She had cancer – specifically, sarcoma.

Fear and determination in the face...