Amorim is part of the Rosas Va'a Hawaiian canoeing team whose members have undergone cancer treatment. — AP
When breast cancer turned her life upside down, Anna Lucia Amorim, a 63-year-old Brazilian from Rio de Janeiro, fell into a deep depression – sometimes struggling to get out of bed.
But everything changed, she said, after she started practising Va'a canoeing in Niteroi, a city facing Rio across Guanabara Bay, with other women who have battled cancer or were undergoing treatment.
