Suzanne Rogers has seen her fair share of drama for the past 52 years as Maggie Horton on Days of our Lives , but she recently faced the biggest challenge of her life after she was diagnosed with cancer this past summer.

It all began when Rogers felt that something “wasn’t quite right” and made an appointment with her doctor. Though she had been routinely getting colonoscopies, she was sent for another. Once a surgeon saw the results, “He said, ‘I want you to have an MRI and I want you to have a PET scan and I’m going to do a biopsy,’” Rogers shares. “And the minute he said that I knew that it was something more.”

She went in for another procedure and when she came to after it, her fears were confirmed by the doctor: It was Stage II colorectal cancer. “He said, ‘You have cancer and yo

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