Thousands of patients ages 15 to 39 receive cancer treatment at MD Anderson each year, but a cancer diagnosis can feel especially lonely for younger patients and survivors who don’t often have an opportunity to connect with each other. That’s where MD Anderson’s Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Program comes in. It gives patients and survivors a way to connect with others like themselves more than ever before, virtually and in person....
I came to MD Anderson after I'd already started treatment in Chicago for Stage 4 inflammatory breast cancer with bone metastasis. I had finished...
You're sitting in the waiting room, your heart is racing, your palms
are sweating and your blood pressure is rising.
You...
This past week I reached a major milestone in my male breast cancer
treatment - my last chemo, certainly for now and hopefully
forever.
It was only my fourth FAC -- the drug combo of
5-fluorouracil, adriamycin and cyclophosphamide, which is the second
phase of my male breast cancer treatment, following 11 cycles of
taxol.
It was the last step in the chemotherapy part of
my 142-day, 15-treatment male breast cancer journey...
I was diagnosed with metastatic stage IV melanoma in 2003 after a
lymph node resection in Wichita Falls, Texas.
At that
stage in...
You can't always see cancer's side effects. Yet, changes in appearance or bodily functions sometimes lead to depression, anxiety and...
The Internet can make life easier, but the answers it gives you can
be overwhelming when you're dealing with cancer.
So
what's the...
My most recent appointment at MD Anderson took place a week before Christmas. The hospital was decked out with trees, wreaths and red bows...
As far back as high school, Kendal Mills had numbness and tingling in his shoulder and arm. He was a baseball pitcher, and doctors ordered...
Most people kicked off the New Year with plans for a healthier 2013.
But many of us have already fallen off track.
...