Uveal melanoma is a term with which many people may be unfamiliar. In part, that's because it's a relatively rare type of cancer, but also because it's been called different names by different sources.
Essentially, uveal melanoma is a cancer, or melanoma, of the eye. While it's not seen as often as cutaneous (skin) melanoma, which accounts for the vast majority of melanoma cases, it's the second most common type of primary malignant...
Janice Simon believes that cancer patients can, and should, get organized.
A project director in MD Anderson's Department of Faculty...
Dara Insley is a pain warrior.
Treatment for breast cancer in 2009 and 2010 involved two extensive and delicate surgeries -- one...
After a long and successful career in broadcast journalism in Houston, North Texas and Oklahoma, Judy Overton joined MD Anderson in 2008 as a senior communications specialist. Her husband, Tom, was treated at MD Anderson for renal cancer. He died in April 2007. Judy's occasional posts will cover aspects of the cancer experience from the caregiver's perspective.
I haven't been myself lately.
I haven't felt like doing...
Caring for a loved one with a serious illness can be exhausting and disheartening. Robert Lee of Oolitic, Ind., shares the story of his wife...
Mike Charnock of Houston was treated for high blood pressure and enlarged lymph nodes before doctors found the real cause. On July 26, 2010...
Ashton Marchand has been writing since she can remember; and thanks to the help of her mother's choice to take part in a homeschooling education...
Cervical cancer forms in the tissues of the cervix. It is usually slow-growing and caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), but it rarely...
Jennifer Dunmoyer lived the first 34 years of her life feeling invincible -- until she was diagnosed with cancer.
"I have always...
When entertainment reporter and reality TV star Giuliana Rancic made public her breast cancer diagnosis, rumors began to swirl about whether...