Riding Against Cancer: A Survivor Tells His Story

World Cancer Day: A survivor rides his bike across 15 states to raise awareness about the disease

(On World Cancer Day, 2018, we invited our readers to share their stories of courage and survival. Harteij Bhartesh shares his story of hope with us)

I was in my last semester of BA LLB when I was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. It was 2013 and I was battling Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a kind of cancer that starts in white blood cells that are part of body’s immune system.

In May 2014, I moved to Hyderabad from Bengaluru and underwent 12 sessions of chemotherapy over six months. By 2015, cancer was receding. I started yoga and working out at the gym to get my immunity back on track.