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...
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....
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...
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...
Even while she was undergoing chemotherapy to treat stage IV breast cancer, Pat McWaters was passionate about helping other patients. So,...
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...
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...
San Antonio resident Tony Castro was only seven years old when he started showing the first signs of a childhood brain tumor.
He began...
Because of his father’s prostate cancer history, Carl “Travis” Klimitchek always made health screenings a priority.
But he didn’t expect...