When I was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 50 in February 2017, there was no doubt in my mind as to where I’d go for treatment.
I’d rejoined MD Anderson two years earlier as a patient care technician, after going back to school and working in other health care systems to expand my skills. And I grew up in Houston hearing other people talk about how great MD Anderson was. That included my own mother, who worked for a different...
I always thought of lung cancer as a smoker’s disease, so I was pretty astonished when I received my own diagnosis in December 2019. I’d been...
Before my diagnosis in February 2019, no one in my family had ever had cancer. So we were all very surprised when I was diagnosed with triple-negative...
Growing up in El Paso, Jon Filbert loved collecting autographed Major League Baseball trading cards.
“I really was into it, and I still am,” says Jon, now 43. “My
collection is up to about 150,000 cards, but who’s counting?”
Baseball cards aren’t all he collects.
“I collect cancers, too,” he says.
During the last dozen years, Jon has been diagnosed with thyroid, lung, skin and kidney cancers. “In...
When I was 10, one of my relatives came all the way from another state to get treated for breast cancer at MD Anderson. Another one got breast...
Genetic disorders can be really scary, but learning that I have one probably saved my life. It also led me to my current career. As a fundraiser...
Breast cancer remains one of the two most-common types of cancer in the world, according to the World Health Organization. It’s the fifth-leading...
Certain genetic changes, or mutations, can increase a person’s chances of developing cancer. These changes, known as hereditary cancer syndromes...
How do you explain cancer — or the effects of cancer treatment — to a young child? How do manage everyday life when one of your own children...
It hasn’t stopped being fun yet – and that applies both to their science and their marriage.
Nancy Jenkins, Ph.D., and Neal Copeland...