Cancer treatment side effect: skin changes
Did you know that cancer treatments can cause changes to your skin? Sometimes these changes are simply cosmetic, but other times they...
Lung cancer patient gets a second chance after lobectomy
It was a 5.5-cm tumor wrapped around Jason McFarland’s pulmonary artery that threatened to end his 20-year career as a police officer...
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...
Happier despite esophageal cancer treatment
At first, Richard “Ricky” Harveston couldn’t swallow his hamburger bites. Then, he struggled to drink his milk, and what he managed to...
B-cell lymphoma diagnosis gives survivor new perspective
Aaron Allcorn thought a persistent head cold was causing his stuffy nose and snoring.
But after what was supposed to be routine...
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...
Volunteering taught me how to care for patients during...
When my parents were undergoing cancer treatment in the 1980s and early 2000s, I didn’t know how to help them cope with their...
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...
During kidney cancer treatment, yoga instructor finds her...
Over the last 11 years, Katy Tucker has endured a nephrectomy, Gamma Knife® radiosurgery and six chemotherapy drugs. And though the...
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivor: Listening to my mother saved...
If it hadn’t been for my mom, I might not be here today.
I thought I was in remission in the spring of 2008. I’d already completed...
Spinal cord ependymoma survivor confronts fear
When I was undergoing radiation therapy for my spinal tumor, I took my 12-year-old brother to the MD Anderson Proton Therapy Center....
Staying positive during lung cancer treatment
Phil Richmond never missed his annual physical, and he considers himself lucky for that. Because he smoked, his doctor performed a...