Two-time tongue cancer survivor: Why I support research at UT MD Anderson
Sometimes, the most meaningful breakthroughs in medicine aren’t about saving your life — they’re about saving your quality of life. That was certainly the case for me when facing my second possible recurrence of tongue cancer in just six years in the spring of 2025.
By then, I’d already undergone two oral surgeries near my home in Pennsylvania. Each one came with its own set of frustrations...