Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates nearly 1.9 million news cases will be diagnosed this year in the United State alone.

But there is good news as the number of people surviving has increased the last decade.

Los Angeles Times writer Arash Markazi is a two-time cancer survivor. He courageously wrote and shared his personal battle with non-hodgkin's lymphoma.

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