Breast and ovarian cancer diagnoses help clinical dietitian empathize with patients
Senior clinical dietitian Christie Siebel can empathize with her patients. With their pain following surgery. With their nausea after chemotherapy. With their worries and their doubts. She knows because she’s been there.
A triple-negative breast cancer and ovarian cancer survivor, she’s been through cancer treatment twice herself. The experience has made her more grateful, and it’s made her better at her job, she says.
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Lumpectomy: 7 things to know
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Prostatectomy: What to expect
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Singing surgeon puts liver cancer patient at ease during COVID-19 pandemic
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Colorectal cancer patient: Choose MD Anderson first
When other cancer patients ask for advice, rectal cancer survivor Robert Cuppett tells them to go to MD Anderson -- and to go there first....
Colorectal cancer survivor: Don’t put off your colonoscopy
Last updated Oct. 4, 2021
Warren Bright made sure to get his physical every year. But he put off getting a colonoscopy until he was...