New Delhi, June 6 -- Indo-Canadian actor Lisa Ray was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2009. Three years after her recovery, she relapsed around the time of her marriage ceremony in 2012. It took her months to beat cancer once again, and now the 53-year-old is sharing the "hard truths, soft landings, and stubborn hope" about her journey. As she continues to heal, the "cancer graduate," says there is light after dark. Lisa Ray, whose first oncologist gave her only five years to live, also has advice to "my newly diagnosed self."

The former model was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that gets developed in plasma cells in the bone marrow. "If I could time travel, I'd have a few words with the woman staring down a cancer dia...