Specialized orthopedic oncology procedures preserve patients’ active lifestyles
You’d never guess that Luke Adkins is a cancer survivor by looking at him.
But the 24-year-old paramedic had his entire left knee and part of his femur replaced with an endoprosthesis (an artificial bone and joint) in 2011 due to osteosarcoma, and MD Anderson’s Orthopaedic Oncology department has kept him active and on his feet.
“I feel very fortunate,” Luke says. “I live in Lubbock, and removal of my leg was pretty much...
Throat cancer survivor chooses clinical trial to ‘help someone else'
Chuck Caldwell was in Europe with his wife in September 2015 when his throat started bothering him. At the time, he chalked up the soreness...
Lung cancer survivor credits clinical trial for life
Georgia Dominick’s journey to MD Anderson began with unusual chest pains on what started out as a normal August day in 2014.
“It was...
Clinical trials give hope to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia survivor
George Miller is an athlete and a die-hard marathon runner, so he was shocked when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2008.
“I remember thinking, ‘There’s gotta be a mistake,’” George says. “‘I’m too healthy to have cancer.’”
A swollen lymph node and some occasional spells of fatigue were his only real non-Hodgkin lymphoma symptoms, but his general practitioner assured him they were probably nothing. Two months...
HER2+ breast cancer survivor shares hope
When Dorothy Paterson discovered a lump in her right breast while showering in 1998, she didn’t believe it at first.
“I tried to wish...