The psalmist wrote, "From the mouth of infants and nursing babes, Thou hast established strength." For more than 20 years, from the cord blood of babes, cancer patients have gotten a second chance at life.
Flavio Lopes Ferraz is one of them.
Bone marrow provides the standard of care transplant, but the Brazilian attorney found himself without a viable family marrow donor when he was diagnosed with leukemia...
In January 2007, I had a mole removed from my right shoulder that led to my diagnosis of melanoma.
Within six months, I had become...
"Unfortunately, it appears the tumor has returned."
Those were the first words the emergency room doctor said after seeing...
March 28 is my father's birthday. He would have been 84 today. We lost him 18 years ago to colon cancer.
Cancer is no stranger to...
When newly diagnosed cancer patients are prescribed chemotherapy, they are understandably apprehensive.
The word "chemotherapy...
This is a continuation of yesterday's post on traveling to MD Anderson for pancreatic cancer treatment.
I'm fortunate to have a...
Once you're diagnosed with cancer, what's the first thing you're likely to do? Call your sister? Call your children? Cry? Get mad?
A constant theme in my brain and body for the past several months is the struggle to figure out how to be a "regular" person after...
Burton Dickey, M.D., doesn't slow down. The chair of MD Anderson's Department of Pulmonary Medicine runs three miles four times a week...