When Claudia Pichardo was a child, one of her many doctors told her she was a fighter, not a quitter.

“Ever since then, that’s been my motto,” she says. In fact, she’s relied on it throughout her life.

An acute lymphocytic leukemia diagnosis

Claudia’s cancer journey started at age four, when she was diagnosed with anemia, started bruising easily and began running a fever. Her mother took her to their local hospital...