“I felt that, no matter what, I was gonna beat it,” was Elise Roth Tedeschi’s defiant response when doctors told her she had stage 4 pancreatic cancer back in 2012. She had ignored two warning signs, back and stomach pains, for some time before learning the sinister root cause of her discomfort. But Tedeschi, a wife and mom, told Inside Edition that she wouldn’t take “no” for an answer: “I didn’t care what the doctors said.”
Photo courtesy of Elise Roth Tedeschi
