4-time rare sarcoma survivor finds new treatment options — and hope — at MD Anderson
By the end of 2022, Idaho resident Patty Hornby had already endured three major surgeries to remove a rare, recurrent soft tissue sarcoma called a solitary fibrous tumor from her chest cavity. So, when a routine CT scan showed more new tumors there in late 2022, the 9-year survivor was dismayed.
“We’d been told repeatedly that surgery was the only possible treatment,” Patty recalls. “But we were also told you could only cut...
Histotripsy for liver cancer: What to know about this novel cancer treatment
If you, or someone you know, was recently diagnosed with a liver tumor, you may have heard talk about a new type of cancer treatment called...
How is ablation therapy used to treat cancer?
Ablation therapy is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that kills cancer cells with either very hot or very cold temperatures. <...
30-year stage IV colon cancer survivor: Cryoablation clinical trial at MD Anderson saved my life
When Gene Jones was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer in 1993, cryoablation was such a new therapy that MD Anderson was still waiting on delivery of the equipment from the manufacturer.
But a clinical trial here enabled Gene to become one of the very first patients to benefit from this now well-established surgery, which treats cancer by freezing it. And today, the 81-year-old farmer is still out baling hay and lifting 50-pound...
Surgery gives two-time survivor new life
With a family history of colon cancer, Brian Folloder has been getting regular colonoscopies since he turned 35. But in 2009, when he was...
Life with a benign brain tumor
My first brain surgery was in 1988. I had been diagnosed with a meningioma, a benign brain tumor, in my occipital lobe. Because it’s also...