By the time I got to MD Anderson in early 2011, I was very, very sick. I’d been diagnosed with a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma called B cell lymphoma several months earlier. It was stage III. But the treatment I’d been receiving at a local hospital system wasn’t working. I needed to try something different.
A large tumor in my abdomen was about the size of a small grapefruit. It was pressing against my rib cage and squashing my...
My husband, Donald, and I had been dating for less than a year in June 2010, when he was diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma, a type of non-Hodgkin...
You may already know that it’s important to wash your hands, wear a face mask and avoid sick people while neutropenic.
But is there...
Until she came to MD Anderson, 82-year-old Myrna Youmans had never heard the words “smoldering myeloma.” So, she didn’t know that they described the health condition she’d already been living with for eight years.
“I didn’t have any visible symptoms,” explains the Augusta, Georgia resident. “And my regular physician only discovered it by chance. The bloodwork from my annual physical just came back a little abnormal in 2006. And...
My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 94. My mother-in-law had it when she was in her 40s. But to my knowledge, there’s...
By the time I got to MD Anderson in March 2021, I’d already been through two cancer diagnoses, three relapses, six types of chemotherapy and...
As a senior medical laboratory scientist at MD Anderson, I work behind the scenes to analyze patients’ lab work. My findings play a crucial...
Carolyn Drone thought her days of coping with cancer were over. She’d finished leukemia treatment two years earlier and showed no signs of...
Since they were first introduced more than 60 years ago, stem cell transplants have cured or extended the lives of millions diagnosed with...
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivor: Why I traveled more than 7,000 miles from Jordan for cancer treatment
I had symptoms of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the spring of 2008, though I didn’t recognize them at the time. The first was a severe headache,...