After an MRI in 2004 for back pain, my doctor found a cyst on the right side of my stomach that had to come out. A surgeon in Abbeville, Louisiana did a biopsy and found that I had non-Hodgkin follicular lymphoma in my small intestines. It was stage I, found early.

A local oncologist suggested a wait-and-watch approach since the cancer was slow-growing. I sought a second opinion at MD Anderson with Jorge Romaguera, M.D. He also...