How caregivers can get exercise at MD Anderson

BY Kellie Bramlet

Sticking to an exercise routine while helping a loved one through cancer treatment can be a challenge. That's especially true when you're spending a lot of time at the hospital or clinic.

But you don't have to train for a 5K or go to the gym to burn calories and enjoy the benefits of exercise. Many things you do while you're at MD Anderson count as exercise.

"Any time you're moving around counts,...

Cancer caregivers can learn how to get exercise at MD Anderson.

My male breast cancer story

BY Ronnie Pace

There are approximately 2,200 men in the United States who are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, and I am one of them.

Until...

Broken back to Camelback: Survival from a different point of view

BY Jennifer Davis

If my doctors at MD Anderson had told me that I would be standing on top of Camelback Mountain in Arizona just 10 months after my stem cell...

Sacred circles and holy images: Helping cancer patients and caregivers heal through art

BY Lynn Randolph

Every Tuesday afternoon for the last seven years, I've visited MD Anderson to help cancer patients and families in the palliative care...

16 things cancer patients and survivors want newly diagnosed patients to know

BY Laura Nathan-Garner

The minutes, days and weeks after you're diagnosed with cancer can be overwhelming, scary and lonely.

But, as cancer patients and...

Autologous stem cell transplant survivor: What to expect

BY Karen Fore

As a volunteer with CanCare and myCancerConnection, MD Anderson's one-on-one program that connects cancer patients and caregivers with others...

Gratitude for mammograms and stereotactic ablative radiosurgery

BY Judith Miller

I always tell women to get their regular mammograms. That's how doctors spotted my lung cancer.

A chance lung cancer diagnosis...

Winning my battle against multiple myeloma

BY Karen Fore

I have an iron-clad immune system -- or so I thought. I was hardly ever sick.

That is, until 2009 and 2010, when I got the flu. I...

Sarcoma survivor: "Don't wait to live"

BY Anton Blender

In 2003, Bethany Brown found out she’d gotten an interview for nursing school. She tried calling her father to share the good news, but he...