Around 5,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with anal cancer each year, which is often treated using radiation therapy.
Although radiation therapy can be effective in treating the cancer, it often causes side effects, including changes to patients’ sexual health. This is especially true for women. But many anal cancer patients are unaware that radiation therapy may be the reason for these changes, or they’re too embarrassed...
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When I was 6 years old, my mother died from cancer. She was only 35, and at the time, her death came as a shock to everyone in our family....
When my daughter Aaliyah was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma in November 2016 at age 9, I was shattered, vacillating hourly between two nearly unspeakable fears: the fear that she would not survive, and the fear that during the last weeks or months of her life, she would suffer relentlessly.
Suddenly, thrust into a life I barely recognized, I struggled to navigate what moms who had gone before me kept assuring me would eventually...
There’s no one food that can cure cancer, but that doesn’t stop such myths from circulating. And while researchers are starting to find some...
I was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre disease in 2012 and chronic inflammatory demyelating polyneuropathy (CIDP) in 2013. But I learned that...
Many breast cancer patients undergo radiation therapy as part of their treatment. While radiation therapy often comes with side effects, such...
When someone you know receives a cancer diagnosis, you want to help. But how?
Instead of asking what you can do to help, it’s usually...
I don’t like change. But sometimes you have to be willing to make one in order to survive.
That’s what I did. I’m a small town girl...
I learned early on that my mom is more fragile than most people.
Radiation treatments she received as a teenager for stage III nasopharyngeal...
In November 2016, when I was 9 years old, I was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma. My parents took me to MD Anderson, where I had chemotherapy...
You see them walking the skybridge: some people wearing patient identification wristbands, some people wearing employee badges. But there...
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As an executive at an oil and gas service company, Andy Moriarty often shares safety messages with his employees. Lately, these messages have...
There’s so much information surrounding cancer and diet that it can be hard to separate the myths from the facts. That’s especially true when...
Before I enrolled in one of MD Anderson’s triple-negative breast cancer clinical trial in November 2016, I was in a dark place. I’d been re-diagnosed...