Jun 22, 2024
Christine Handy withstood osteomyelitis in her right arm, a lumpectomy, two mastectomies and a MRSA infection en route to surviving HER2+ breast cancer. It wasn’t easy, but her road to survivorship included a 28-round chemotherapy regimen with herceptin and taxol. She has gone on to resume her career as a runway...
Jun 15, 2024
The unstoppable Deb Krier survived Stage IV HER2+ breast cancer, basal cell carcinoma and papillary thyroid cancer, enduring 33 surgeries.
In 2015, Deb Krier of Mapleton, Georgia, went in for a routine mammogram. She had no idea that would be start of a lengthy cancer journey. After the procedure, she was asked to...
Jun 10, 2024
Vicki Wolf was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 37. Ductal Carcinoma in SITU was successfully addressed with a lumpectomy. However, Vicki was diagnosed with the same type of cancer just two years later. Again, a lumpectomy. When Vicki was 47, she was diagnosed with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. She survived that...
Jun 8, 2024
In this episode of the @CancerInterviews podcast, host Bruce Morton hears from Melinda Bachini, who survived cholangiocarcinoma, a form of bile duct cancer. Doctors removed two thirds of her liver, but three months later, the cancer returned, and she was put on a chemotherapy regimen of gemcitabine and cisplatin. ...
Jun 1, 2024
Kay Kays of Sun City, Arizona survived four diagnoses of pancreatic cancer between 1994 and 2008. Her specific diagnosis was pancreatic cyst mucinous adenocarcinoma, a rare form of pancreatic cancer. There was no chemotherapy specifically for pancreatic cancer, but did qualify for a Whipple procedure, a reconstruction...