Victoria Kathryn Geib (March 2, 1986 – November 1, 2021) was an American chef and cancer patient advocate. She worked as a hospital catering chef before her

metastatic breast cancer Metastatic breast cancer, also referred to as metastases, advanced breast cancer, secondary tumors, secondaries or stage IV breast cancer, is a stage of breast cancer where the breast cancer cells have spread to distant sites beyond the axillary l ...

diagnosis in 2016. Geib advocated for legislative changes against fail first requirements leading to the signing into law of Ohio Senate Bill 252 in December 2020.

Life

Geib was born on March 2, 1986, in

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, to Victor Madison and Bonnie Sue (Adams) Geib. She had a sister, Sarah Elizabeth Geib. Geib graduated from

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and

Mount Vernon Nazarene University Mount Vernon Nazarene University (MVNU) is a private Christian university in Mount Vernon, Ohio, with satellite locations in the surrounding area. It was founded in 1968 by the Church of the Nazarene and offers a variety of Bachelor's and Master ...

. She worked as a hospital catering chef and competed in Ohio cooking competitions. Due to her cancer diagnosis, Geib had to quit her job two years after school. The week of her birthday in 2016, Geib of

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, was diagnosed with stage 4

. Eight months later, she was told the condition was terminal. She was a patient at

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. She used social media and established a blog, Metastatic Millennial, to share information about her fight against cancer. In 2019, she was the honorary chair of the Columbus

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. She advocated for the

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to make legislative changes against fail first requirements. State senators

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and

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sponsored Senate Bill 252 which was signed by Governor

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on December 21, 2020. It prohibits fail first insurance policies for stage 4 metastatic cancer patients. Geib died on November 1, 2021, at Kobacker House in

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References

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