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OCTOBER 2017 FRONTDOORSMEDIA .COM | 9 {by mike saucier} COVER STORY That diagnosis can color everything they do – from interactions with family and friends to work and leisure. Lucia Schnitzer, who, with her husband, owns the Phoenix gourmet cafes Luci’s Healthy Marketplace and Luci’s at The Orchard, is all too familiar with cancer diagnoses. As a new mother, she was told she had breast cancer. That was after her sister-in-law Linda received the same diagnosis – and was able to beat it. Schnitzer’s mother-in-law Nadine was told she had cancer twice, once before Schnitzer and then again just recently. (She is now fine.) Schnitzer’s mother, living abroad at the time, had surgery for uterine cancer, though she did not disclose it to her family until it was beaten. Her father-in- law Carl beat prostate cancer and is now battling kidney cancer. In 2016 alone, 32,510 people across the state were told the words they did not want to hear: You have cancer. Frontdoors sat down with Schnitzer for a frank and at times emotional conversation about living with a cancer diagnosis. Each year, tens of thousands of Arizonans find out they have cancer. They then walk a path filled with uncertainties, forced to ride the emotional roller coaster that follows the diagnosis. Lucia Schnitzer HOW LUCI'S HEALTHY MARKETPLACE OWNER FACED DOWN FEAR AND CANCER