Two-time cancer survivor to run Boston Marathon – KTEN [Video]

Laura Giesler is lacing up as she prepares to run in the Boston Marathon.

But Laura’s greatest challenge is already behind her.

In 2018 Laura was diagnosed with a rare form of placenta cancer, called malignant neoplasms of placenta, caused by a molar pregnancy.

“When they told me that, I wasn’t really shocked, I was just still grieving the pregnancy loss,” Laura Said.

She spent over a year going from chemo and infusions straight to work, and raising her young daughter.

In February of 2020, she was officially declared cancer free.. then two months later, in April, Laura was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Laura and her husband Russell said they never had any doubts she would beat it again – and that she did.

“We’re just ready to do this, lets go,” Laura said.

“After the first cancer it’s like, it wasn’t- we already- it wasn’t nothing,” said Russell.

Laura and Russell had a daughter before her first …