"Hmmm, looks like there's some stuff there," my doctor said
as he read the report of my chest x-ray.
That
"stuff," I figured, might be residue from too many years of
heavy smoking. After smoking for years, I'd expected that one day an
x-ray would reveal cancer.
As it turned out, the
"stuff" wasn't cancer. But, that same x-ray and others
confirmed a nodule in my right thyroid.
Turning...
My battle with brain cancer started in the fall of 2008.
I was at work when I began having some nasal problems and trouble completing...
In January 1989, MD Anderson went smoke-free. It happened the same
month and year that I started working here.
Now when
people see...
Before I even had a confirmed breast cancer diagnosis, one of my
first thoughts was "I don't have time for cancer." I had a
full-time job and am a single mom with children who were nine, six and
three at the time. I had an active social life. I was teaching two
yoga classes per week. How could I fit cancer treatment into my life?
I was completely unprepared for my life to be consumed
by cancer. But consume my...
My 20-year-old son Charles (Trey) Rood III is a junior at the University of Georgia. He was diagnosed with stage III melanoma when he was...
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You know that sensation between when you step off of firm ground that's high up and when you land again? The space in time where you...
Good news for non-small cell lung cancer patients undergoing a combination of chemotherapy and radiation: If you're experiencing side effects...
Jeanette Sebesta has tackled many roles during a celebrated career as a regional actress in Houston. But recent real-life experience has been...
"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same
boat now."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
As
we celebrate...