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Cancer survivor back for fourth ACS relay  

For the fourth consecutive year, Mangilao resident Oliva Aguon is preparing to do something tonight a doctor initially thought she would never be able to do: walk in the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life.

The 50-year-old mother of four hasn't missed a relay since the first time she walked the track at George Washington High School field in 2002, the year after she finished more than six months of radiation and chemotherapy to treat lung cancer.

A smoker for more than 30 years, Aguon had quit smoking in June of 2000 in an effort, with her husband Roy, to live a healthier life. The couple began walking, but Oliva Aguon kept feeling a burning pain in her chest.

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