Through Worsening Cancer, Artist And Teacher Lara Nguyen Compelled To Create - a podcast by Blue Ridge Public Radio - BPR Arts & Performance
from 2021-02-09T14:54:24
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When Lara Nguyen first learned of her rare cancer--uterine leiomyosarcoma--she had just come home from teaching in Prague and was just starting work on a major mural in Grand Rapids, Mich. She had a full hysterectomy in 2018, when the cancer was still in its early stages. "It was a wonderful distraction," Ngyuen said of her work on the mural. "There was still some hope there, catching it early. But then in January 2020 it came back, it metastasized into my left lung. Then a day after Father's Day,
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