“I have an illness, not a terminal diagnosis,” says Lisa Ordmandy. Despite her metastatic breast cancer diagnosis, Lisa remains optimistic. Her motto is “Live into the cure.”
Lisa, now 66, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007. Following treatment at another hospital, her doctors said she wouldn’t have a recurrence.
But a few years later, Lisa tripped on her stationary bicycle and fell. “I call it my bicycle accident...
“Other doctors felt they could not operate,” says Sean O’Brien, an astrocytoma survivor. But MD Anderson neurosurgeon Frederick Lang, M.D....
Astrocytoma and glioblastoma are two types of brain tumors. Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) changed how these tumors are classified...
You don’t have to be a music lover to benefit from music’s healing impact. Studies have found that just 30 minutes of listening to relaxing classical music can decrease levels of stress hormones in the blood.
Science demonstrates the power of music’s healing properties. The field is called music medicine. Music medicine researchers study how certain music-based interventions impact stress, pain, sleep and mood in patients...
“I never dreamed that I would have a mass in my skull,” says Curry Kennerly.
Today, the father and grandfather who inspects new construction...
“Will I be able to do Sudoku?”
That was the first question Grace Jou asked neurosurgeon Jeffrey Weinberg, M.D., who performed a craniotomy...