Childhood brain tumor survivor dreams of curing cancer
San Antonio resident Tony Castro was only seven years old when he started showing the first signs of a childhood brain tumor.
He began feeling nauseated in Nov. 2013, and even vomited occasionally. But because it was cold and flu season, the thought of cancer never entered his mother’s mind.
“Unfortunately, I didn’t recognize it, and I took it really hard,” Lilliana Castro says. “I’m an ICU nurse, and I just beat myself...
Phase I clinical trial takes colorectal cancer prognosis from hospice to healing
Tim Givens considers himself blessed.
Despite being diagnosed with chemotherapy-resistant colorectal cancer three years ago, the 71...
For Boot Walk co-chairs, MD Anderson’s mission is personal
Between them, husband and wife Malcolm and Dorothy Paterson have been diagnosed with three different types of cancer, one of which is so rare...
Vismodegib lets eyelid cancer survivor keep his vision
When Paul Skobel’s eyelid cancer returned in 2013, his local oncologist told him that he would probably lose his right eye because of the way the tumor had grown back.
Paul’s right orbital bone and cheekbone would need to be removed, and the upper jaw on that side of his face might also have to be reconstructed. With the orbital bone gone, there would be no support structure for an artificial eyeball, so a skin flap would have...
Clinical trial gives Houston patient hope
Before Gail Barr was diagnosed with breast cancer during a routine mammogram in 2013, a slight thickening in her right breast was her only...
When a doctor becomes a cancer patient
A cancer diagnosis can change your life forever.
But when doctors receive a cancer diagnosis, it can also change the way they practice...