Women who befriended each other during cancer treatment meet annually on Lake Minnetonka to celebrate being alive

There's something to be said about staying in touch with old friends, but four friends have done it against the greatest of odds.

Sandy Robertson, Terri Naab, Shari Hamlin and Priscilla Bauer gather on the shores of Lake Minnetonka at Maynard's, traveling across the country, to commemorate each year they are still alive.

"They said, '60/40, 60 you are gonna die.'" Bauer said.

It was when they were all facing their mortality that they first faced each other at Methodist Hospital's oncology ward.

"We were all sitting next to each other in that radiation room. At first, we were just polite to each other and we all just started talking," Bauer said.

They named their new social circle, the R-Gang, all in radiation at the same time.

Sometimes, the conversations were light, but sometimes t