Bond built during breast cancer treatment inspires survivor to volunteer
It had been two years since Billa Woollam’s last mammogram, and she knew she was long overdue for one. But it was a strange sensation in her breast that sent her rushing into a clinic for a breast exam in November 2015. The following morning, she was asked to return for a biopsy.
“My doctor’s office called and said I needed to be there within 30 minutes,” Billa recalls. “I knew they weren’t going to do that if there was nothing...
Clinical trial makes grandfather two-time lymphoma survivor
Jerry McLeary can recall the exact moment he just knew that his journey with a rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma would end happily.
Breast cancer survivor, volunteer: How I support other patients
During one of breast cancer survivor Margaret Looper’s early visits to MD Anderson some 15 years ago, a volunteer who escorted her to her...
Uterine cancer survivor finds miracles in her rare experience
Jan de Chambrier had always envisioned herself as a mother to several children. In 1990, she and her husband were on their way to fulfilling that desire when they found out they were expecting twins. Then she suffered a miscarriage. And the news got worse from there.
“They discovered a tumor behind the uterus,” says Jan, who was 37 at the time. “It was unusual because at that age, women are not diagnosed with uterine cancer. I...
