By the autumn of 2017, I’d been working as a grant program manager in the Department of Translational Molecular Pathology on the research administration side of things here at MD Anderson for about a year. I had already seen some of the incredible things our institution could do. So, I knew that our clinical trials saved and extended people’s lives.
I just never imagined that my mother’s life would be one of them. ...
How many types of leukemia are there? What makes each one unique, and are they treated any differently?
We went to leukemia specialist...
I’d never heard of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) before I was diagnosed with it in November 2019. So, I didn’t know it was a bone marrow...
I’m a statistics guy, so when my doctor explained that a stem cell transplant offered me the greatest odds for surviving acute myeloid leukemia, I was on board.
I’d already had two months of chemotherapy back home in Oklahoma, but it hardly helped. Then I transferred to MD Anderson, where doctors discovered that a genetic mutation was fueling the leukemia cells in my bone marrow. Luckily, an MD Anderson clinical trial was testing...
Connor Johnson was eager to return to his job as a licensed electrician after recovering from COVID-19 last spring. But his enthusiasm was...
When I enrolled at MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 2017, I never expected to write most of my master’s thesis...
The FLT3 gene helps stem cells mature to red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets in a process known as differentiation. The gene...
Cancer has disrupted my life three times over the past 16 years.
The first time was in 2005, when my late husband, Eli, was diagnosed...
Before I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in December 2018, I’d never heard of MD Anderson. And cancer doesn’t run in my family,...
As a physician, I never expected to be diagnosed with cancer myself — much less four times before age 50. But by the time I got to MD Anderson...