Sean Swarner

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446 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 27 Feb

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And I didn't want to be the empty seat at my family's dining room table.

So then I came back and I realized that when I was fighting for those cancers, not only was I fighting for my life, but I had a deeper purpose.

And that purpose was one of my personal core values that still stayed with me, which is family.

So I was moving forward and I wanted to live for myself and my family's lives, but I also decided that I didn't want to focus on not dying.

I wanted to focus on living.

So as a 13-year-old, I decided that I didn't want to focus on the avoidance of something that I didn't want in my life.

I wanted to be attracted to and focus all my energy and attention on something I did.

And I learned that at a really young age.

So fast forward, I went through the chemotherapy a year and a half later.

I was in remission going in for a checkup for the first cancer.

They diagnosed with a second type of cancer that's super, super rare called Askin's sarcoma.

And because no one's ever had these two cancers before, my chances of survival literally were 0.000000001% chance.

Basically, you're telling me there's a 0% chance I'm going to be living in 14 days because that's the amount of time they gave me to live.

And I went through three months of intense chemo, a month of radiation therapy, 10 more months of chemotherapy.

And every time I was in the hospital, like the three months and then the 10 months, the one month of radiation therapy, I remember.

But the three months and 10 months outside the radiation therapy, I don't remember because the treatments were so harsh.

the doctors put me in a medically induced coma.

So I don't remember being 16 or 17 years old.

And also because of the radiation therapy, I lost the function of my right lung.

was the first time I was going through the treatment, they never used the word cancer.

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