
Katherine Athanassiades, 14, shown above in a photo from March 2011, earlier this month was declared cancer free by doctors after undergoing surgery, cheomtherapy and radiation for a brain tumor. Photo provided
The words on her back were simple enough—“I Beat Cancer.” But the depth of their meaning changed the way 14-year-old Katherine Athanassiades approaches life.
Before being diagnosed with a rare type of brain tumor near her pituitary gland last f...