Best of Cancerwise 2017: Advice from our patients and caregivers
If you — or your child — were diagnosed with cancer, what would you do? How would you handle the treatments and the side effects? How...
Best of Cancerwise 2017: 11 inspiring quotes from our...
Many cancer patients have mantras — or inspiring sayings — that they do their best to live by. Some are reminders that good things can...
Stomach cancer survivor finds hope at MD Anderson, even...
For 78-year-old widower Do Lee, the hardest part of having stomach cancer wasn’t chemotherapy, radiation or even learning to eat again...
Immunotherapy clinical trial gives four-time skin cancer survivor...
As a child growing up in the 1950s, Dean Potter spent a great deal of time outdoors working on his family’s Rhode Island farm, playing...
Pediatric leukemia survivor gives back to MD Anderson at...
Ethan Tepera was only 13 years old when he was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in October 2011. He’d been pale and...
10 questions about gynecologic cancers
Each year, approximately 100,000 women are diagnosed with some form of gynecologic cancer: cervical, ovarian, fallopian tube, uterine...
Throat cancer survivor now singing MD Anderson’s praises
Music has always been a part of James McManus’ life. The middle son in a family of musicians, he was the lead singer of a rock ‘n roll...
Colorectal cancer survivor: Explore your family’s cancer...
As a funeral home owner and operator in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the Rev. Lawrence Meadows knows what it means when doctors start...
7 things sarcoma patients should know about allografts
For Ewing’s sarcoma and other types of sarcomas, treatment can sometimes include surgery to remove a tumor. That can also mean...
Identical twin’s tissue donation gives rare sarcoma...
When Marian Fields first felt a lump in her back in 2012, she asked her twin sister Mary Jane to look at it. Her twin said it looked...
For melanoma survivor’s son, MD Anderson-Topgolf corporate...
MD Anderson has been a part of Len Turpin’s family for generations. In the 1960s, his paternal great-grandmother was successfully...
After a breast cancer diagnosis, twins become genetic...
Twin sisters Ana and Roxana Lopez were only 17 when their mother died of breast cancer. Over the next eight years, several of their...
Hypnosedation: Is it possible to have surgery without...
If you were told that there was a way to have surgery painlessly without general anesthesia, would you try it? Breast cancer survivor...
Cervical cancer survivor becomes a mother, thanks to...
After being diagnosed with stage IB cervical cancer in October 2012, Allison Pozzi consulted four different specialists near her San...
Immunotherapy clinical trial gives hope to leukemia,...
An acute myeloid leukemia diagnosis (AML) in May 2016 came as no real surprise to Julia Dutton. She’d been fighting debilitating...
Breast cancer survivor finds comfort in quilting community
Michelle Hines has never had ovarian cancer. But that didn’t stop the Maryland transplant from making a quilt that directly supports...
After stem cell transplant, multiple myeloma survivor...
Gary Rudman has a motto: “Never quit. Never stop. Not today. Not ever.” And he’s lived by it throughout his multiple myeloma...
Celebrating life after a cord blood transplant
April 4 is just another day to most people. But to Erika Evans, it’s an important one. This year, it marked the fifth anniversary of...
Multiple myeloma survivor finds hope, empowerment in...
Gary Rudman began experiencing severe lower back and leg pain in early 2013, just a few years after he retired from the U.S. Air...
Ovarian cancer symptoms: 4 things to know
Bloating. A feeling of fullness. Constipation. All of these can be symptoms of ovarian cancer. They can also be the result of a bad...
Five-time salivary gland cancer survivor faces life with a...
Kelly Mireles’ smile is the facial feature most people notice when first meeting her. That alone is a minor miracle.
Kelly had most...
After clinical trial reveals lung cancer, survivor becomes...
When Sherry Zorzi first picked up a cigarette as a teenager, she never dreamed that one day she’d be telling people not to smoke.
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A caregiver’s advice for preserving quality of life
Singer Kimmie Rhodes had been married to legendary music producer Joe Gracey for 28 years when he died of metastatic esophageal cancer...
Remission after allogeneic stem cell transplant and...
When Sandra Hurley was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) back in 1997, an Ohio-based oncologist gave her two to four...
Tongue cancer teaches patient and caregiver the art of...
Singer and songwriter Kimmie Rhodes holds a somewhat unique distinction: she’s supported two different people on their oral cancer...