 The Survivor Project is a collection of survivors' stories from the Kidney Cancer Association. Take some time to get to know these people. They can change your life. There came a point when I found out I had kidney cancer and my world came crashing in on top of me. And during the operation, they took it out, they also found that I had another tumor in my right adrenal gland. And after that, about three weeks after I had that happened, I had a heart attack and then they did a quadruple bypass. And I've had three different surgeries. I've had hand-assisted laparoscopic. I've had a cryo-surgery and I've had an open surgery. I had a metastasis to my lung and liver and also some lesions found in my brain. My case is a little bit different than everybody else's where I'm about one-tenth of one percent of the cases that happen. I had a spontaneous remission. I represent the five percent of people with kidney cancer who have it because of some genetic disease, a genetic syndrome. For one, go out and find yourself the very, very best doctors and don't be afraid to ask questions. Having three small children, five-year-old and nine-year-old and twelve-year-old, that was the hardest part. So dealing with renal cell cancer is not the kiss of death. It is truly amazing. I've been stage four for four years and just this past August I was told that I'm cancer-free.