This Article was written by Marcie Miller for the Peninsula Daily News.

PORT ANGELES — “On the other side of fear you will find freedom,” Jack Ganster, 47-year-old cancer survivor, said recently, wearing a yellow shirt emblazoned with the Lance Armstrong “Live Strong” message.

The Port Angeles man lives the “freedom after fear” aphorism every day and is establishing a program to help other cancer survivors do the same.

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Six years ago, he was running an outdoor gear store and spending every minute of his free time hiking, skiing, kayaking and enjoying life.

Then, while attending a football game at Qwest Field in Seattle, Nov. 2, 2003, he was struck by a seizure and rushed to Harborview Medical Center.

The diagnosis came swiftly: a brain tumor the size of a walnut lodged behind his ear in the left parietal lobe.

Over the next four months, Ganster underwent two surgeries and five weeks of radiation therapy. Regular MRIs show no sign of the cancer returning. …Continue Reading Freedom After Fear