Gross died of job-related cancer on March 17 after serving with the Sacramento Metro Fire Department for nearly three decades. He leaves behind a loving wife, Donna, and four children.

In April, Gross was able to ring the chimes and declare that she was cancer-free. “The biggest positive or my number one takeaway, probably, would just be God’s faithfulness,” she said.

When a tumour develops, it creates a structure around itself called the tumour stroma, within which blood and lymphatic vessels ensure nutritional and respiratory biological exchanges ...

Andrew Gross, a member of a prominent New York apparel family who abandoned a career in the rag trade to write nearly 20 crime and political thrillers, including five with the fiction juggernaut ...

Doctors diagnosed Gross with Triple-negative breast cancer a year ago. For her, enduring a battle with breast cancer had been a risk for more than a decade when she was diagnosed with the BRCA gene.