Where MD Anderson patients made important connections

BY Audrey Seykora

Cancer can feel very isolating. But it can help to connect with others who’ve been there.

We recently asked several patients and survivors where they made their most meaningful connections at MD Anderson. Here what they said.

myCancerConnection Survivorship Conference

“I met many ladies in the inner waiting area for radiation treatments. But I made the most connections at MD Anderson’s myCancerConnection Survivorship...

Angiosarcoma survivor: 3 ways to support a friend with cancer

BY Marissa Henley

As a cancer survivor, I hear this often: “My friend was just diagnosed with cancer. How can I show my support? I’m so afraid I’ll say or do...

My chondrosarcoma journey: It takes a team

BY Andy Austin

Around April 2015, I started to experience mild headaches. They weren’t unmanageable, but they kept lingering. At the time, I didn’t think...

Squamous cell carcinoma caregiver gives back

BY Lisa Nalven

Ten months ago, doctors told my brother, Eric, that he had squamous cell carcinoma in his nasal cavity. My family and I were concerned, not...

Genetics expertise helps make precision medicine a reality

BY Lori Baker

Ben Gilmer chokes up when talking about walking his daughter down the aisle last May. He wasn’t sure he’d be alive to make that stroll after...

A link between music and medicine

BY Mindy Loya

“Don’t try this at home,” Claudius Conrad, M.D., Ph.D., quips as he lectures on the historical ties between music and medicine. Conrad, an...

Personalized chemotherapy dosing treatment improves responses, minimizes side effects

BY Gillian Kruse

A stem cell transplant patient recently returned to MD Anderson for a follow-up visit with sore ribs. But he wasn’t relapsing or experiencing...

Coping with GVHD after ALCL

BY Jaymee Fiskum

I never really thought about life after cancer. I was too busy just dealing with the ways stage IV anaplastic large T cell lymphoma small...

Making art matter

BY Carol Bryce

Dragons are protectors, the young patient believed. So she envisioned herself standing next to a dragon in a giant digitally printed mural...