When someone you know receives a cancer diagnosis, you want to help. But you may not know how.
Some people don't feel comfortable asking for help, or the list of things they need help with may seem too long and overwhelming. So, instead of asking what you can do to help, it’s usually better to find a concrete way to support your friend or loved one.
But what can you do that will actually be helpful? We asked some of...
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When I was 6 years old, my mother died from cancer. She was only 35, and at the time, her death came as a shock to everyone in our family.
About 24 years later, my maternal aunt was diagnosed with serous uterine cancer. Her oncologist noticed a pattern of cancer in our family. Genetic testing confirmed his suspicion: my aunt had Lynch Syndrome, a genetic mutation that increases a person’s for colorectal and uterine cancers. Her...
When my daughter Aaliyah was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma in November 2016 at age 9, I was shattered, vacillating hourly between two nearly...
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I was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre disease in 2012 and chronic inflammatory demyelating polyneuropathy (CIDP) in 2013. But I learned that...
Many breast cancer patients undergo radiation therapy as part of their treatment. While radiation therapy often comes with side effects, such...
I don’t like change. But sometimes you have to be willing to make one in order to survive.
That’s what I did. I’m a small town girl...
I learned early on that my mom is more fragile than most people.
Radiation treatments she received as a teenager for stage III nasopharyngeal...
In November 2016, when I was 9 years old, I was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma. My parents took me to MD Anderson, where I had chemotherapy...
You see them walking the skybridge: some people wearing patient identification wristbands, some people wearing employee badges. But there...
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There’s so much information surrounding cancer and diet that it can be hard to separate the myths from the facts. That’s especially true when...
Before I enrolled in one of MD Anderson’s triple-negative breast cancer clinical trial in November 2016, I was in a dark place. I’d been re-diagnosed...