Amanda Niebergall started 2020 with a big party, celebrating her 32nd birthday with friends and family. The Regina woman then delivered a keynote speech at the Summit to Eliminate Cervical Cancer in Toronto, celebrating more than a year cancer-free. “I came back and everything was going quite swimmingly, I thought, for this year and then my dad was diagnosed at the end of January, beginning of February,” she said.
Her 65-year-old father, Glenn, was diagnosed with neck and throat cancer. Around that time, Niebergall’s recent scans came back, showing what she called “some weirdness.” “I wanted to pursue it further so I really pushed to the ministry to get my PET scan done and it showed my cancer had also come back,” she said.