Around 5,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with anal cancer each year, which is often treated using radiation therapy.
Although radiation therapy can be effective in treating the cancer, it often causes side effects, including changes to patients’ sexual health. This is especially true for women. But many anal cancer patients are unaware that radiation therapy may be the reason for these changes, or they’re too embarrassed...
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“I probably was walking around with cancer for...
I might be the only MD Anderson patient who never had cancer. Or, at least, that’s how I felt on that winter day in 2008 when I first entered the Main Building and began my MD Anderson journey.
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Tate Landin was 23 and training for his first deployment with the U.S. Army when he began to notice his brain tumor symptoms.
“About...
In many ways, Jacob Ballard is a typical teenager. He likes soccer, is fascinated by robots and enjoys spending time with his friends....
I never really thought about life after cancer. I was too busy just dealing with the ways stage IV anaplastic large T cell lymphoma small...
Growing up in Jefferson, Texas, Jasia Russell, didn't know anything about physical therapy.
That changed when Russell was 16 and her...