29-year-old NYPD cop beats cancer Community rallies around cop Stacey Byrnes has lived by the motto when there's a will, there's a way even after she found out she had stage-4 cancer. NEW YORK - When there's a will, there's a way. Stacey Byrnes, 29, has lived by that motto her whole life, even after she found out she had stage-4 cancer. "I found a bump on my left leg. I just didn't think it was right," Byrnes told FOX 5 NY. I had to get a biopsy done and then they discovered that it was lymphoma cancer." The six-year veteran of the NYPD was diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma last August. It's a type of treatable, yet aggressive blood cancer. By the time doctors found it, the disease had already spread to her pelvis, neck, and other leg.