Cancer Caregiver
- Lilian Garcia’s mom is a 29-year breast cancer survivor.
- Garcia’s father, who was given only two years to live after a prostate cancer diagnosis, lived for another 36 years before passing away from bladder cancer in 2016.
- Garcia gave up her position as an announcer with the WWE to care for her father, and credits him with giving her the courage she needed to pursue her dream to start a podcast.
Garcia’s mom is a 29-year breast cancer survivor, and her father, who was given only two years to live after a prostate cancer diagnosis, lived for another 36 years before passing away from bladder cancer in 2016. In his last months, Lilian left the WWE to care for her father, who encouraged her to pursue her passion for announcing and podcasting. Sharing the first episode of the podcast with him six weeks before his death was, in her words, “everything.”
“It’s important for us to just support those who are going through these hard times,” Garcia tells SurvivorNet, “and then, after they’re gone, have their memory live on.”
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