My eye has watered daily for the past 30 years. I always blamed it on allergies, which I’ve had since I was a young child.
But in December 2019, something was different when I touched the corner of my eye. It was very tender and sore. This lasted about 10 days. I started to feel a very tiny bump under the skin at the corner of my right eye by my nose.
I made an appointment with an ophthalmologist in my hometown in...
For as long as I can remember, my mom has been a source of strength. She’s my comforter, advisor, mentor and role model.
But in 2017...
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When my prescription reading glasses snapped in two without warning in November 2016, I had no idea how much my life was about to change.
I went to a local optometrist in Austin, thinking I’d get a quick replacement after a cursory checkup. But a few minutes into the exam, the doctor gave me some sobering news: the cloudiness in my left eye was actually a small lesion on the retina, the inner lining of the eyeball. It was likely...
I’ve always been a bit of an extremist. So, when I learned that skin cancer runs in my mom’s family, I started seeing a dermatologist immediately...
This past year, dozens of MD Anderson patients and survivors shared their cancer journeys with us. In the process, they’ve shared...
Between them, husband and wife Malcolm and Dorothy Paterson have been diagnosed with three different types of cancer, one of which is so rare...
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It took Eileen Brzoska almost eight years to get an accurate adenoid cystic carcinoma diagnosis. “I was misdiagnosed twice due to the rarity...
You probably know that skin cancer can affect many different parts of your skin. But did you know skin cancer also can occur on your eyelid...