After my first ovarian cancer recurrence in January 2009, I figured longevity was probably not in the cards for me. Because once stage III cancer returns, you’re automatically at stage IV. So, I was expecting to live maybe two or three more years.

Yet here I am, more than 10 years later. And that’s almost entirely due to MD Anderson.

As it turns out, you can sometimes live quite a while with stage IV ovarian cancer. I treat...