Lung cancer survivor credits clinical trial for life

BY Cynthia DeMarco

Georgia Dominick’s journey to MD Anderson began with unusual chest pains on what had begun as a normal August day in 2014.

“It was very strange,” she says. “It started kind of near my heart, and felt like when I had pleurisy, which I’ve had a couple of times because I also have asthma. But I went to work that day feeling perfect, and it just kept getting worse and worse.”

Georgia went to see her local internist immediately...

Cancerwise blog post: Clinical trials patient Georgia Dominick

Clinical trials give hope to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia survivor

BY Cynthia DeMarco

George Miller is an athlete and a die-hard marathon runner, so he was shocked when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2008....

Surviving glioblastoma after war

BY Meagan Raeke

Tate Landin was 23 and training for his first deployment with the U.S. Army when he began to notice his brain tumor symptoms.

“About...

HER2+ breast cancer survivor shares hope

BY Cynthia DeMarco

When Dorothy Paterson discovered a lump in her right breast while showering in 1998, she didn’t believe it at first.

“I tried to wish...

From caregiver to MD Anderson volunteer

BY Elizabeth York

Even while she was undergoing chemotherapy to treat stage IV breast cancer, Pat McWaters was passionate about helping other patients. So,...

How a clinical trial gave me my life back after MDS and AML

BY Shirley O’Brien

Five years ago, my spouse and I had settled into our dreamed-of retirement. Although our 28 years as professors at the University of Arizona...

Why I’m taking tamoxifen to avoid breast cancer

BY Kathleen Gahm

My family is no stranger to cancer. In 2005, my mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and in 2006, my older sister faced a diagnosis of...

Childhood brain tumor survivor dreams of curing cancer

BY Cynthia DeMarco

San Antonio resident Tony Castro was only seven years old when he started showing the first signs of a childhood brain tumor.

He began...

Phase I clinical trial gives renal cell carcinoma survivor life

BY Elizabeth York

Because of his father’s prostate cancer history, Carl “Travis” Klimitchek always made health screenings a priority.

But he didn’t expect...