As a physician, I never expected to be diagnosed with cancer myself — much less four times before age 50. But by the time I got to MD Anderson in September 2019, I’d already been treated for triple-negative breast cancer and chemotherapy-induced acute myeloid leukemia once. And I was on the cusp of relapsing with both.

I went to MD Anderson because the first stem cell transplant I got near my home in Wisconsin wasn’t keeping the...