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Nicki Bradley

Irish Cancer Survivor Hikes Iceland Glacier on Crutches

By R. Bryan Willits, Editorial Assistant
August / September 2016

August 10, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Irish woman Nikki Bradley, a courageous survivor of a rare form of bone cancer known as Ewing’s sarcoma, has just defied the odds once again after climbing an Icelandic glacier on crutches. Since she was diagnosed in 2002 at the age of 16, Nikki has been battling cancer now for nearly a decade and half, and after double hip replacement and now the possibility that she might … [Read more...] about Irish Cancer Survivor Hikes Iceland Glacier on Crutches

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