ROBERTSDALE, Alabama --- Beverly Salter is looking for liver jokes.

The 23-year-old Robertsdale native was diagnosed with liver cancer in August and telling jokes helps her stay positive about her third cancer diagnosis in as many years.

“If I sit here and get down on it, it’s not going to do me any good,” she said.

She is currently undergoing chemotherapy to shrink spots on her liver before a possible surgery next month. She said her prognosis is good because the cancer was caught early and she’s young.

Salter was first diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2009 the day before she went to basic training with the U.S. Army.

In 2011, a genetic mutation that doesn’t allow her body to stop the production of polyps resulted in a colon cancer diagnosis. She said before the diagnosis was made she was sick off and on for a year.

“I’d get a little bit better and then get sick all over again,” she said. “We knew something was wrong.”

Salter went through a 14-hour surgery to remove her large intestine and now wears an ileostomy bag as a result, said her mother Mary Thweatt.

Thweatt said she too is staying positive about the new diagnosis.

“I’m kind of like as long as they’re all still laughing I’m fine with it,” she said.

Family friend Ben Moon admires Salter’s strength and her positive attitude.

“Beverly’s strong,” he said. “She will fight and she will win. She doesn’t like to give up.”

Christine Salter, Beverly’s sister, has planned a benefit to help raise money for the chemotherapy treatments. The fundraiser that features a concert, poker run and food for sale will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Garrett Park in Robertsdale.

There is no admission fee, but the family will be selling food and raffle tickets to help raise the money.

Participants in the poker run, which features motorcyclists making multiple stops to pick up cards in a poker hand, can sign up between 9 and 11 a.m. Saturday. The fee for the poker run is $25 with a meal ticket or $20 without and $10 for a passenger.

Christine Salter said she organized a benefit to help pay for her sister’s surgery last year, but this one has “turned into this huge event.”

She said at first it was going to be a fish fry or selling barbecue plates, but her musician friends said they’d play at a benefit.

“I had a full lineup before the plans were finalized,” she said.

The live music includes Brad Lawley, Highway 98 Band, Jason Abel Project, Jimmy Lee Hannaford and Sean Donahue.

In addition, 20 percent of the proceeds will benefit the USA Mitchell Cancer Institute in Mobile.