At just 38 years old, Tina Griffith heard the words that would change her life forever: ‘You have cancer.’ Meet her and other Norton Healthcare patients in the Report to Our Community.

Published: January 4, 2018 | Updated: November 11, 2019

Cancer is a word no one wants to hear from a doctor. But, once those life-changing words were spoken to Tina Griffith, the Norton Children’s Hospital employee chose to fight.

“I woke up one morning and heard, ‘If you are going to pray to me, why are you crying? And if you are going to cry, why pray?’ At that point I realized God’s got this — I’ve got this,” she said.

Griffith is now six years cancer-free and uses her story to empower others to fight for their health through early detection and prevention.

“Early detection is the key for all cancers,” she said.

Griffith works with the Norton Healthcare Mobile Prevention Center to host an annual health fair at a community center in West Louisville, which provides mammograms and other health services for attendees.

Learn more about Griffith’s story in the Norton Healthcare Report to Our Community. You’ll discover more remarkable stories of how health care changed the lives of other patients.

Norton Healthcare is a not-for-profit organization in Louisville, Kentucky. In addition to offering comprehensive, compassionate patient care, we support our community through charitable giving — providing nearly $156 million in 2016.