In 2004, Christine Stewart, a young woman with two small children, who did not smoke cigarettes, was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer. At the time of diagnosis, Stewart was given a two percent chance of surviving a lung cancer that had spread to her lymph nodes, tailbone and brain. The good news, her physician told her, was that she still had enough time to draw up a will. During the next year of chemotherapy and radiation, her lung cancer continued to spread. Chemotherapy and radiation had failed her. One year after the initial lung cancer diagnosis, Stewart was prescribed Tarceva, a new line of targeted therapy cancer drugs, and six months later, her lung cancer had gone into remission. Stewart says she made a promise to God, that if she regained her health, she would help others affected by cancer. Practical Truisms is that promise. Practical Truisms is a book, an inspirational website for anyone who receives a cancer diagnosis with advice to make a will, and the story of Stewart's lung cancer survival.

On April 7, 2006, Stewart has a speaking engagement at the American Cancer Society Relay For Life in Naples, Florida, where she will discuss the burden of the "Positive Attitude" concept and how to develop an "Effective Attitude" instead. All in all, I think Stewart's promise to God has been a promise well-kept.