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Cycling for Life: Q&A with Cancer Survivor and Charitable Activist Blake Bohlig

Cycling for Life: Q&A with Cancer Survivor and Charitable Activist Blake Bohlig by Bill Miles. Photograph of a bicycle handlebars by Markus Spiske
Photograph by Markus Spiske

Inspired by her own childhood cancer, one young woman is moved to combine her love of cycling with her charitable spirit to help others combat this disease

[The following questions were posed by Bill Miles, co-founder and creative director of Best Self Media]

Q: Life dealt you a less than auspicious hand from the start, having been diagnosed with cancer at 2 months old. Do you have memories of life with cancer? Can you tell us a little about how that impacted your early childhood and how the cancer has played out since?

During a routine newborn checkup, my pediatrician felt an abnormal mass in my

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