When cancer spreads, it does not ask permission. It moves from one part of the body to another, setting up in organs and bones and tissue like an invader claiming territory. By the time doctors use the word "metastatic," the war has already gone from one front to many.
Venus DeMarco's cancer had spread throughout her body. Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. Multiple sites. The kind of diagnosis that makes treatment feel less like a cure and more like damage control.
The Diagnosis
The scans told the story in clinical detail. Breast cancer, stage 4, metastatic. It was not contained. It was not localised. It was everywhere — or at least that is what it felt like when the oncologist laid out the extent of the spread.
When cancer is in one place, there is a plan. Cut it out, burn it, poison it. When cancer is in many places, the plan gets harder. Treatment becomes systemic. Side effects multiply. The body is caught between the disease and the treatment, and both take a toll.
Venus DeMarco looked at the scans and understood what she was facing. And then she decided how she was going to face it.
The Declaration
Venus did not just pray. She declared. There is a difference.
Prayer is asking. Declaration is speaking what you believe to be true over your circumstances, even when the circumstances disagree. Venus took the Word of God — healing scriptures, promises about wholeness, verses about the power of God over sickness — and she spoke them over her body.
Every single day. Not when she felt like it. Not when she felt strong. Every day. Including the days when the pain was bad, when the fear was loud, when the cancer was still showing up on every scan.
She spoke Proverbs 4: "They are life to those who find them and health to one's whole body." She took that "whole body" promise personally. Not some of her body. Her whole body. Including every site where the cancer had spread.
The Community
Venus was not alone in this. Her community — her church, her family, her friends — wrapped around her in prayer. They carried what she could not carry on the days when the fight was too heavy. They prayed when she was too tired to pray. They believed when her own belief faltered.
This is what the church is supposed to be. Not a building. Not a Sunday morning routine. A community that holds you up when cancer tries to knock you down.
The Scans
And then the scans started changing.
Not all at once. Not every site at the same time. But scan after scan, the cancer began to disappear. One site cleared. Then another. Then another. The metastatic spread that had been confirmed in imaging after imaging was reversing — cancer retreating from territory it had already claimed.
The oncology team tracked it. They documented it. They could see it with their own eyes on the imaging. Where there had been cancer, there was now healthy tissue. Where there had been spread, there was now retreat.
Venus DeMarco's testimony was featured on the CBN 700 Club, where she told the story to a national audience: stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, scripture declaration, persistent prayer, and cancer disappearing from her body one site at a time.
What This Means for You
If your cancer has spread — if the word "metastatic" is in your file, if the scans show it in more than one place, if the doctors are managing rather than curing — Venus DeMarco's story is not here to minimise what you are going through. It is here to tell you that metastatic does not mean unreachable.
God does not look at a scan showing cancer in multiple sites and feel overwhelmed. He is not limited by how far the disease has spread. If He can clear one site, He can clear them all. And Venus's scans proved it — site by site, the cancer disappeared.
Declare the Word over your body. Let your community pray. And refuse to believe that "widespread" means "beyond God's reach." It does not. Venus DeMarco is living proof.
