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...
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...
Around April 2015, I started to experience mild headaches. They weren’t unmanageable, but they kept lingering. At the time, I didn’t think...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
Dragons are protectors, the young patient believed. So she envisioned herself standing next to a dragon in a giant digitally printed mural...