My wife, Lorraine, is a 17-year breast cancer survivor, thanks to the treatment she received at MD Anderson in 2007. So, when I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia at age 65 in 2018, there was no question about where I’d be going.
I’ve been in remission since early 2019, after completing four months of treatment at MD Anderson. So, MD Anderson has saved not only my wife’s life but also my own.
We are both incredibly...
Macey Hicks always made her health a priority. She went to 4 a.m. boot camp classes, worked out regularly, didn’t smoke and ate plenty of...
CAR NK cell therapy bolsters the body’s innate ability to fight cancer by attaching molecules called chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) to natural...
Richter transformation, historically called Richter syndrome, can affect patients who have or have not been treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). In rare cases, it can occur in previously untreated patients with CLL.
Named after Maurice Richter, Ph.D., Richter transformation occurs when chronic lymphocytic leukemia changes into a more aggressive disease – usually diffuse large B-cell lymphoma or, much less commonly...
I was 71 years old when Guillermo Garcia-Manero, M.D., diagnosed me with aggressive, high-risk, acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) that morphed...
Curt Bogard recalls first being more tired than usual during a father and son road trip from Texas to the northeast corner of Maine. When...
By the time I got to MD Anderson in early 2011, I was very, very sick. I’d been diagnosed with a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma called B cell...
My husband, Donald, and I had been dating for less than a year in June 2010, when he was diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma, a type of non-Hodgkin...
You may already know that it’s important to wash your hands, wear a face mask and avoid sick people while neutropenic.
But is there...
Until she came to MD Anderson, 82-year-old Myrna Youmans had never heard the words “smoldering myeloma.” So, she didn’t know that they described...