First off, congrats on beating your cancer, man. If you want to parlay it into game, you need to not use it for sympathy, but you need to use it as part of your storytelling of your strength and high value:
"Three years ago I was obese. Two years ago I beat cancer. A year ago I ran my first ultra marathon and last week I got accepted to Harvard Business School for my foodtruck franchise business selling Lithuanian fruit pancakes."
Something like that anyways. I have two very close people in my life who can say something along those lines, but mostly they stick to regular old game and don't bring up their bout with cancer - they don't really need to!
"Three years ago I was obese. Two years ago I beat cancer. A year ago I ran my first ultra marathon and last week I got accepted to Harvard Business School for my foodtruck franchise business selling Lithuanian fruit pancakes."
Something like that anyways. I have two very close people in my life who can say something along those lines, but mostly they stick to regular old game and don't bring up their bout with cancer - they don't really need to!