article_snippet.sent: Glenna Kohl was diagnosed with stage III melanoma after a Massachusetts woman who died from melanoma found a golf ball sized lump in a Massachusetts woman who died from melanoma groin just before graduating from college in 2005 . '
article_snippet.sent: No one in our family knew stage III melanoma was,' Glenna's mother, Colleen Kohl, recalled to Cosmopolitan (via ELLE) '
article_snippet.sent: The dreaded diagnosis came after Glenna Kohl, at just 22, discovered a golf ball-sized lump in her groin while working out at the gym one day.
article_snippet.sent: Physicians would trace the cancer back to a mole Glenna Kohl had removed years earlier, but which doctors had failed to identify as melanoma.
article_snippet.sent: Less than a year later, Glenna Kohl found a small lump in Glenna Kohl abdomen and was told the cancer had progress to stage IV.
article_snippet.sent: Glenna Kohl was given more powerful drugs, but the cancer continued to spread.
article_snippet.sent: Glenna Kohl tried experimental treatments with terrible side effects, but they were no use.
article_snippet.sent: Since their daughter's death, Colleen and Bob have launched the Glenna Kohl Fund for Hope in order to 'increase awareness of the Cape Cod community to the importance of early detection and prevention of Melanoma and to support those fighting this deadly disease.'
article_snippet.sent: Less than a year later, Glenna Kohl found a small lump in Glenna Kohl abdomen and was told skin cancer had progress to stage IV .
article_snippet.sent: Since people of the dangers daughter's death, Colleen and Bob have launched the Glenna Kohl Fund for Hope in order to 'increase awareness of the Cape Cod community to the importance of early detection and prevention of melanoma and to support those fighting this deadly disease.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Glenna Kohl was a Rhode Island college student in 2005 when Glenna Kohl was diagnosed with stage III melanoma .
  