As an MD Anderson research nurse whose mother and sister have both received cancer treatment, I understand what my patients – and especially their families – are going through. But my connection to cancer became even more personal when I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2014. My mother had completed her breast cancer treatment here a year earlier, and she and my sister had always had good results. I thought we were in the clear.
My mom was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, just four years after she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
This year her breast...