Chordoma survivor: 'Put your faith in the doctors'
“I was very lucky to go to MD Anderson,” says Chuck Schlesinger.
In early 2015, Chuck was playing tennis when he felt a sharp pain in his neck. Thinking it was a sports-related injury, he went to a local specialist north of Houston to get it checked out. But X-rays revealed a tumor.
The tumor sat in Chuck’s cervical spine, nestled among the bones of his neck. Given the tumor’s location in the delicate cervical vertebrae,...
Caregiver: Skull base tumor expertise saved my husband’s life
I’ve been an educator for 16 years and a high school librarian for eight. I teach kids how to do research, so I know how to find stuff online...
Q&A: Chordoma, a one in a million bone cancer
When you have a rare cancer that only affects one in a million people, it can be difficult to find the answers and information you need. That...
Learning to laugh through my chordoma treatment
As I reflect on my chordoma diagnosis, surgery and setbacks, I think back to my most recent surgery and smile. I remember Sujit Prabhu, M.D., professor of Neurosurgery, telling me there was no sign of cancer.
He then told me the bad news: the screws holding my head on had come loose -- again.
I have been told I have a few loose screws before, but I did not realize he was serious. The screws doctors put in during...
Chordoma survivor on gratitude after cancer treatment
Recently, I was reflecting on everything that had come up since my chordoma diagnosis and surgery.
In the process, I recalled the F...