Aware of the challenge, design executive Noel Franus founded P.INK, which stands for Personal Ink. It's a non-profit organization that connects survivors with skilled artists. Franus' sister-in-law is a breast cancer survivor.

P.ink Day is an international event, and was held in 13 cities across North America on Oct. 10, 2015.

This year P.INK had 47 tattoo artists volunteering to ink 48 survivors. Leslie Viviana Ossa, a Miami Springs high school grad living in New Jersey, is one of the survivors who applied and was chosen.

"Hopefully I will feel better about myself and my self image," Ossa, 36, said. "It's like I beat this beast and no matter how it scared my body I will always have some control."

Ossa was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013 and uterine cancer in 2007.

Nina Gremo is one of the artist participated in the event. She told 660 NEWS, tattoos are a way for people, specifically cancer survivors, to take back control of their bodies.

“When you go through these surgeries or these treatments, all this scarring is done to your body, and it’s totally out of your control,” Gremo said. “[A tattoo] is a way to not only be able to cover that, but to give yourself a scar. It’s a marker for something, and it’s something you picked, and you had total control over, and you decided how it was going to look in the end.”

The artists also tattooed pink ribbons on other survivors as well as supporters, from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. that day.