Virtual support groups bring comfort, connections for cancer patients and caregivers
Jenn Myers was scrolling through Facebook while waiting for her chemotherapy session to start last April when a post caught her attention.
“MD Anderson announced its cancer support groups were going virtual during the COVID-19 pandemic,” says Jenn, a cervical cancer survivor. “I signed up on the spot.”
Jenn had wanted to participate since she first became an MD Anderson patient two years ago, but the timing was never right...
Teacher’s virtual bedtime stories entertain childhood cancer patients
At night before they drift off to sleep, pediatric patients at MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital can snuggle up in bed with a laptop...
Virtual visits bring big benefits for cancer care
When JuanDiego Mata-Ornelas was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma at age 16, he was too young to travel alone from his home in south Texas to...