A growing community south of Denver will soon have its first cancer center .

By December, the nearly 17,000-square-foot third floor of the Shrader Building in AdventHealth Castle Rock will be transformed into a cancer care center. The goal is a one-stop shop for cancer treatment and care.

"It's been a lot. This year has been really, really difficult," said Castle Rock area resident Kerri Hennessy.

The first time Hennessy got the news no woman wants to hear was in 2012.

"From the time I was diagnosed to finishing radiation was about four months," said Hennessy.

Kerri Hennessy

She beat breast cancer and went back to normal life, until last December, when she found a lump in her breast and got the horrifying news again.

"I couldn't even type the words to my sister that I have ca

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