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Katie Coleman

Biography

Katie Coleman

Katie Coleman is a software engineer at the Rare Cancer Research Foundation, the founder of the nonprofit Chromophobe and Oncocytic Tumor Alliance, and the host of the podcast "Oncology Unscripted." Katie has built a robust social media presence by sharing her experience with cancer since she was diagnosed in January 2020. Her story has been shared by NBC, "Today," CBS, Cure and many others.

Katie Coleman

Books by Katie Coleman

Too Young for Cancer: One Woman's Battle for a Diagnosis and a Fighting Chance
by Katie Coleman - Memoir, Nonfiction

New Year's Eve 2020 was supposed to be a turning point to better days for 29-year-old Katie Coleman. Instead, she found herself in the ER processing the earth-shattering news of a stage IV cancer diagnosis, one that had come after years of being assured she was "too young for cancer” and a repeated misdiagnosis of anxiety. TOO YOUNG FOR CANCER tells the story of Katie’s journey from diagnosis with an ultrarare cancer through treatment, recovery and a life-altering shift in perspective. Katie starts her journey shy, timid and frightened of an intimidating medical world. But as she learns how to advocate for herself, she faces her own mortality with bravery and finds herself at top cancer institutions arguing her case for a radical and high-risk surgery that could change her life forever.