 On Friday June 2nd, the Lawson Cancer Center at Pikeville Medical Center hosted an ice cream social for their cancer survivors. Patients gathered to enjoy some sweet frozen treats and share their stories with each other. The Lawson Cancer Center staff is glad to see a large turnout at this event. Turnout is actually great this year. We've had quite a bit of turnout so far. It's an in full swing and we have this every year to celebrate our survivors and they come in. They talk, they have some ice cream, they mingle. We can get up and tell our stories and talk about what we do here at the Cancer Center to help them and they can actually just share their stories and give a little bit of encouragement. We have several in here that I've already seen today turnout that I've had as patients for years so it's great to see them day in and day out here of course but to see them come in and actually get celebrated and see their faces and you know get to mingle with them outside of the actual clinic setting it's great. Cancer, it's a very scary word but an outstanding treatment facility was here at home. I was led to the Lawson Cancer Center. As a nurse practitioner at the Lawson Cancer Center we are champions for our patients. I am so happy for Robert. The treatment worked. Some of the staff at PMC are cancer survivors themselves which makes this event that much more important to them. They take pride in the work they do to identify and treat those with cancer. It's awesome to see the turnout at our ice cream social because that just shows that what we do here is working and more people come to celebrate their survivorship and you know just makes you feel so proud to be a part of something that is so amazing. I was a nurse for like two years already and then when I was being treated I was treated here at the cancer center and the nurses were really awesome and I just was like wow I'm inspired I want to, I want to do that. Dr. Jacob treats me here and he's wonderful. I can't say enough good things about him and yeah so the cancer nurses and just the whole oncology department that we have here really inspired me to make a career out of it and I'm so glad I did because I've met some really wonderful patients and it's just humbling you know and amazing so. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Colum.