Life after a mastectomy: I'm more than my body parts
Brandie Sellers teaches yoga, meditation, nutrition and cooking. She paints, writes, runs and plays with her children. She is a divorcee and two-time breast cancer survivor who's undergone a double mastectomy.
Brandie is crazy about her three children, and is blessed with a slew of sister friends who pick her up when she's down, keep her honest with herself when she's full of it, and make her laugh until she cries. Follow her...
How do you say thank you?
I recently took my 99-year-old grandmother to dinner with my friend Barbara. Barbara is the friend who went to Texas with me for treatment...
Caregiver chronicles: Caregiver's needs evolve along with treatment
After a long and successful career in broadcast journalism in Houston, North Texas and Oklahoma, Judy Overton joined MD Anderson in 2008 as...
Man in pink: My male breast cancer journey
Oliver Bogler, Ph.D., is senior vice president of Academic Affairs and professor of neurosurgery research at MD Anderson. He was diagnosed with male breast cancer in Sept. 2012. Five years earlier, his wife, Irene Newsham, Ph.D., was diagnosed with breast cancer. This is the first post in an ongoing series.
When my wife, Irene Newsham, Ph.D., and I moved to Houston almost eight years ago to work at MD Anderson, we had no...
Caregiver tips: 'Don't just do something, stand there'
Anyone who has been a caregiver for any amount of time probably knows what the term PTSD means.
For those who don't, it stands...