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Woman Competes in Beauty Pageant Despite Grim Cancer Diagnosis
December 6, 2017
This beauty queen has big dreams, even as she faces the crisis of her life. Andrea Andrade has been given almost unbearable news. Doctors told her she has stage three colon cancer and that she has only six months to two years to live. Doctors removed a tumor, part of her intestine and started her on chemotherapy. Despite her diagnosis, Andrea was determined to compete in the Miss California USA beauty pageant.