Metastatic breast cancer survivor: Living with ‘realistic optimism’
As a metastatic breast cancer survivor, I participate in a lot of support groups. I’m probably active in at least five or six on...
How to build resiliency and move forward
The couch was Janice Simon’s refuge. Overwhelmed and exhausted, the comforting cushions and a healthy dose of HGTV temporarily kept...
For some spinal tumor and breast cancer patients, too hot...
Surgeons at MD Anderson are using extreme heat and cold as their weapons against some forms of cancer.
They’re finding that the...
5 things we learned from our daughter’s rotationplasty
In September 2014, when she was just eight years old, our daughter Elise was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer. It...
The doctor behind our Healthy Heart Program
Susan Gilchrist, M.D., loves to take on a challenge and to build things. Her latest passion is building a program that helps cancer...
Immunotherapy clinical trial gives four-time skin cancer...
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...
Cervical cancer survivor: Why I support the HPV vaccine
As a nurse, I’m a firm believer in vaccines. And that’s even truer now that I’m a survivor of cervical cancer, which is caused by the...
Stage IV breast cancer survivor: Look at your family history
Everyone on my father’s side of the family has died of cancer — my dad of prostate cancer, my grandpa of lung cancer, and my grandma...
Cancer pain management brings patients relief
For 16 years, Rose Trapolino had a hard time walking because of the pain and tingling in her feet.
The breast cancer survivor...
Metastatic melanoma survivor: 'Coming back to MD Anderson...
In May 2016, Victor Barreiro learned his melanoma, originally treated in his hometown of Mexico City in 2014, had returned and spread...
The future of cancer diagnosis and treatment: Liquid...
Some of cancer’s secrets are hiding in patients’ blood. Uncovering them involves only a simple blood draw.
MD Anderson is taking...
Meet Randal Weber, M.D., our chief patient experience...
Many of our head and neck cancer patients know Randal Weber, M.D., as their surgeon. But Weber recently took on a new role as MD...
Starting chemotherapy? 6 questions to ask
Finding out that you need chemotherapy can be overwhelming. But as I’ve learned from working with cancer patients as a nurse over the...
MD Anderson’s Moon Shots Program: 5 things to know
While its name was inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s ambitious goal to put a man on the moon, the Moon Shots Program...
Who is radiation physicist Julianne Pollard-Larkin?
Julianne Pollard-Larkin, an assistant professor of Radiation Physics, always loved math and science. As a teen, she once signed...
My stem cell transplant: 5 things people ask me
After I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in April 2015, I was treated at MD Anderson by Dr. Robert Orlowski with chemotherapy and a...